Those are tears of relief of cancer patient Al Amin’s mother. She started crying after learning that her son can be admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital yesterday. Several hospitals in the capital and Jashore refused to treat the 16-year-old as he is also Covid-19 positive. He along with his parents came to the capital from Jashore’s Jhikargachha as the hospitals there referred him to Mohakhali Cancer Hospital, which denied him admission. Photo: Anisur Rahman
A group of nurses, who tested Covid-19 positive, walks out of Bhaban-2 of Dhaka Medical College Hospital with prescriptions and medicines in their hands. They said at least 40 out of about 100 male and female nurses at the building tested positive. They have been asked to stay home. The photo was taken yesterday. Photo: Anisur Rahman
On the hunt: A squirrel waiting to pounce on an ant on a tree in the capital’s Suhrawardy Udyan yesterday. Squirrels are members of the family sciuridae, a family that includes small or medium-size rodents. Photo: Firoz Ahmed
Asia Begum, a widow, walking a rickshaw van loaded with onion and potato sacks in the capital’s Purana Paltan area yesterday. Every day, the day labourer collects such vegetables from old Dhaka’s Shyambazar wholesale market and supplies them to traders in Shahjadpur area, where she lives with her teenage daughter. Asked whether she was worried about the deteriorating coronavirus situation, she said she must toil away to feed her family. Photo: Anisur Rahman
