Doubt remains over when Bangladesh reaches its Covid-19 peak as experts’ prediction often went in vain albeit over three months has passed since the first coronavirus case was reported on March 8.
General people also blamed the experts for not coming with right information.
Some public health experts are misleading the people continuously regarding the exact peak time of Covid-19, said Delwar Hossain, an undergrad student from Saturia upazila of Manikganj.
On May 8, Professor Dr Shah Monir Hossain, a member of a government expert review committee to analyse the pandemic trend in the country, predicted that Bangladesh would reach its Covid-19 peak at third week of May with more than 50,000 confirmed cases.
However, the forecast was invalid with infections still on the rise that now exceeded 100,000.
On May 5, Dr Abu Jamil Faisel, another member of the expert panel, said the total number of cases would increase by five-fold by end-May with a rising number of deaths.
Two week later, Dr Bijon Kumar Sil, lead researcher at Gonoshasthaya Kendra that claimed to have invented a rapid Covid-19 test kit, opined that Bangladesh might see its Covid-19 peak cases by mid-June or afterward.
The prediction, too, seemed to go in vain as infections and deaths continued to rise till end-June.
Assistant Director of Directorate General of Health Service, Ayesha Akhter, however said they can't tell the exact the peak time yet.
The government has scaled up the coronavirus testing little by little and if the number of infection and deaths continue for another month it will be possible to speak of a specific peak time, she added.
As of Thursday, Bangladesh so far has carried out 678,443 tests and identified 126,606 Covid-19 patients with detecting some 3,946 new ones in the span of last 24 hours.
The death tally climbed to 1,621 on Thursday as 39 more people lost their lives in the last 24 hours.
