Health officials confirmed detection of Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV) in a 30-year-old woman in Bangladesh today.

Dr Halimur Rashid, line director of Communicable Disease Control Programme of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), said that the woman from Kishoreganj, also tested positive for Klebsiella Pneumoniae, a variant of pneumonia.

"The physical condition of the woman deteriorated due to pneumonia, not HMPV," said Halimur adding that the patient is currently under treatment at a hospital in Dhaka.Halimur said that the infected woman is a homemaker. She has no history of travelling abroad. Her husband lives abroad, but he has not returned to the country recently either. 

Addressing concerns about the HMPV, Halimur told The Daily Star that there is no need to panic about this virus. It has been detected in the country before, and the mortality rate from this virus is very low.