ANKARA
Bangladesh on Wednesday confirmed its first death due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Meerjady Sabrina Flora, head of Bangladesh's Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research, announced during a news conference that the patient was a 70-year-old woman who was suffering from cardiac problems, high-blood pressure, kidney diseases and diabetes.
She got infected after getting in contact with a person who had just returned from abroad, said the official.
Another 14 people have been infected with the virus which causes the disease known as COVID-19, she added.
Flora said that the infection spread in the country due to family contacts.