Nasiruddin Yousuff tests positive for COVID-19
Ekushey Padak and National Film Award winner, freedom fighter and renowned cultural activist Nasiruddin Yousuff Bachchu has tested positive for COVID-19.
The eminent cultural personality was admitted to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital (BSMMU) in the administrative centre on Friday, with symptoms of the coronavirus. The test result arrived positive on Saturday.
"Our Dhaka DocLab chairman Nasiruddin Yousuff happens to be receiving treatment at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital (BSMMU). He's advised to take rest and he requests his admirers and associates never to panic at all. We would like prayers from everyone for his speedy recovery," Dhaka DocLab coordinator Shoriful Islam Shaon told UNB.
Among the pioneers & most respected personalities in the theatre arena of Bangladesh, Nasiruddin Yousuff founded Dhaka Theatre in 1973 and later Bangladesh Gram Theatre along with the late playwright Selim Al Deen.
Yousuff is currently serving Dhaka DocLab as its chairman, Bangladesh Gram Theatre and Dhaka Theatre as president and Bangladesh Centre of International Theatre (BCITI) as organising secretary, to name a few.
A former president of the Sammilita Sangskritik Jote, he has also served as the president and director of the Committee for Cultural Identity and Development (CIDC).
In his illustrious career, Nasiruddin Yousuff received the National Film Award as the very best Director for his critically acclaimed film Guerrilla (2011). He was awarded Ekushey Padak by the federal government of Bangladesh in 2010 2010 for his outstanding contribution towards the development of the theatre industry in Bangladesh.
