A number of online news portals had been running baseless and misleading reports about Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Annisul Huq, said the DNCC yesterday.

Annisul's family members requested all to be aware that misleading information about the mayor was being circulated, said the DNCC in its first ever press release about the mayor's health.

The mayor, who was undergoing treatment at the Intensive Care Unit of a London hospital, has been moved to a rehabilitation centre on October 31 and he was gradually improving, it said.

It said Annisul had been feeling unwell for months before his trip to London with his family on July 29 for the birth of his daughter's child. His health deteriorated there and he was diagnosed with cerebral vasculitis, said the press statement.

It said according to his doctors it could take several months for him to recover.

The DNCC asked everyone to pray for his early recovery.

Annisul was admitted to a neurology hospital in London on August 13.