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The IEDCR says it found no coronavirus cases in the country in the last 24 hours until Monday morning.
The government's disease control arm briefed the media about this on its premises in the city's Mohakhali, UNB reported.
While briefing the media, IEDCR (Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research) director Prof Meerjady Sabrina Flora said they received over 500 calls through IEDCR hotline numbers till 5:00pm on Sunday.
"We received 509 calls through hotline numbers till 5:00pm on Sunday after the announcement of first three cases of coronavirus infection in the country. Of those calls, 449 were related to coronavirus," she said.
Dr Flora said the samples of four people had been tested so far but all those found negative for coronavirus.
The IEDCR confirmed its first three cases of coronavirus — two men and one woman — on Sunday, adding that all of them have been kept in quarantine.