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Country sees toughest time to deal with Covid-19


Published : 10 May 2020 09:32 PM | Updated : 06 Sep 2020 03:46 PM

Two months after the Covid-19 outbreak, Bangladesh is facing the highest difficult situation to deal with the deadly virus. Experts think that the country is passing through the toughest period of time now.

Although the number of testing the virus has increased and various measures to prevent the viral infection are being taken, the number of infected people is rising everyday. But all the elements of spreading this virus are also existing almost everywhere in the country. Lack of coordination in the administrations in last two months to tackle the virus and many wrong decisions are said to be responsible for the deterioration of the situation.

According to official data, around two months ago, on March 8, three patients were first identified with coronavirus in the country. After two months and two days, the number of victims stood 14, 667 and death toll rose to 228.

The rate of both the infected people and deaths have risen many times more than in the beginning period.
An analysis of data from the government's ICD division website (http://covid19tracker.gov.bd/) found that while the outbreak in Europe and Asia and Southeast Asian countries had been started rising since the third month, in Bangladesh the number has been alarmingly started to be increased since the mid-April. About 95 percent of the total infections were detected in the second month of infection. 

In other affected countries, more than 98 percent of infections were detected in the first two months. However, in these countries it started to increase from the third month and turned to the pandemic situation. But after a month and half in Bangladesh, the number of infected patients has started to increase in a large number. However, like other countries, the infection in Bangladesh is not increasing by leaps.

Prof. Dr. Nazrul Islam, a former Vice Chancellor (VC) of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), who is also the existing Chairman of the Department of Virology and a Member of the National Technical Advisory Committee of the government, said that the countries in Europe with the highest number of cases had the lowest number of patients and deaths in the first two months. Their health system is much stronger and disciplined than us. As a result it could not be expanded at first.