{"id":986,"date":"2021-03-12T08:46:45","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T02:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financialherald.net\/?p=986"},"modified":"2021-03-12T08:46:45","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T02:46:45","slug":"sylhet-3-mp-mahmud-samad-dies-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financialherald.net\/?p=986","title":{"rendered":"Sylhet 3 MP Mahmud Samad dies of Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On February 10, the MP received his first dose of coronavirus vaccine and had no adverse effect<\/p>\n<p>Mahmud Us Samad Chowdhury, the Member of Parliament (MP) from Sylhet 3 constituency, died from Covid-19 infection while undergoing treatment at the United Hospital in Dhaka on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>His brother Ahmed Us Samad Chowdhury confirmed the news of Mahmud&#8217;s passing via a Facebook post in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The parliament member was unwell for a few days and his condition suddenly deteriorated while returning to Dhaka from Sylhet on Sunday. Upon reaching Dhaka, he was rushed to the hospital, said Julhas Ahmed, Mahmud&#8217;s personal secretary.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On Monday, he (Mahmud) was tested for Covid-19 and the report came positive. As his physical condition deteriorated, he was put on ventilation,&#8221; said Julhas.<\/p>\n<p>On February 10, the MP received his first dose of coronavirus vaccine and had no adverse effect, he added.<\/p>\n<p>President M Abdul Hamid yesterday expressed profound shock and sorrow of his death.<\/p>\n<p>In a condolence message, the head of the state prayed for eternal peace of the departed soul and conveyed deep sympathy to the bereaved family.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina\u00a0 also expressed profound shock and sorrow at the death of Mahmud Us Samad Chowdhury, who is also the vice-president of AL Sylhet district unit.<\/p>\n<p>In a condolence message, the prime minister prayed for the salvation of the departed soul and expressed deep sympathy to the bereaved family members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 10, the MP received his first dose of coronavirus vaccine and had no adverse effect Mahmud Us Samad Chowdhury, the Member of Parliament (MP) from Sylhet 3 constituency, died from Covid-19 infection while undergoing treatment at the United Hospital in Dhaka on Thursday. His brother Ahmed Us Samad Chowdhury confirmed the news of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialherald.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialherald.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialherald.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialherald.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialherald.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/financialherald.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":988,"href":"https:\/\/financialherald.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions\/988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialherald.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialherald.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialherald.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialherald.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}