A 67-year-old man has died of COVID-19 at the isolation ward of Gopalganj Sadar Hospital.
Deceased Nityananda Ballab, a resident of Narayankhana village under Kotalipara upazila, breathed his last around 7:30pm on Saturday at the hospital where he was undergoing treatment, district civil surgeon Dr Niaz Mohammad confirmed.
He was shifted to the hospital from Kotalipara Upazila Hospital on June 3 for better treatment after he was found positive for the deadly virus.
With him, total 10 people died of COVID-19 in the district till Saturday. Of them, two in Sadar, one in Tungipara, one in Kotalipara, two in Kashiani and four in Muksudpur upazilas.
Some 23 people found corona positive in the district on Sunday, taking the total number to 609. Of the infected, 15 in Sadar upazila, six in Kotalipara while two in Muksudpur upazilas.