Mirza Fakhrul contracts Covid-19 for second time

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has tested positive for Covid-19 for the second time, reports UNB..

"The BNP secretary general was diagnosed with the coronavirus on Saturday," BNP media cell member Sayrul Kabir Khan told the news agency.

He said Fakhrul underwent the Covid test in the morning as he was suffering from fever and the report came positive.

Sayrul said the BNP leader was infected with the virus for the second time though he had received the booster dose of the Covid vaccine.

He said Fahrul has been receiving treatment in isolation at his Uttra residence under the supervision of medicine specialist Dr Raihan Rabbani.

Earlier on January 11 last, Fakhrul and his wife Rahat Ara Begum were infected with coronavirus.