BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
A laboratory report of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) confirmed the matter on Sunday.
Khaleda Zia's sample for COVID testing was collected on Saturday and on Saturday the result came positive.
BNP leaders, however, said they do not have any such information, reports UNB.
A source close to Khaleda’s one of the relatives who met her last week later tested positive for the Coronavirus. “That’s why Madam’s (Khaleda’s) family took initiatives for her Covid test, though she has no major symptoms," adds UNB.
The government freed Khaleda Zia from jail for six months through an executive order suspending her sentences on March 25 last year amid the ongoing coronavirus outbreak,.
On February 8, 2018, Khaleda was sent to Old Dhaka central jail after a lower court sentenced her to five years’ imprisonment in Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case. The High Court later doubled her jail term.
Khaleda Zia was found guilty in another corruption case the same year.
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