Dhaka, Sept. 15 -- The government's disease control agency IEDCR conducted the study jointly with the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh or icddr,b and some other government and private agencies.

In a statement on Tuesday, icddr,b said they found COVID-19 infection in Bangladesh in mid-February 2020, nearly a month before the first cases were reported in March.

The researchers, however, did not reveal details about this finding.

They made the finds through the analysis of genome from 391 samples collected between March and July last year.

The IEDCR confirmed the first COVID-19 cases in Bangladesh on Mar 8. The first death from the disease was reported after another 10 days.

Until Tuesday, the government ...