Bangladesh has been experiencing a widespread transmission of coronavirus in the community for last several weeks. Analyzing soaring numbers of coronavirus infection rates in the country, it can be said that the deadly virus is spreading fast to the community level. As the number of fatalities is increasing rapidly, it is very important to make people stay home at this moment to quell community transmission.
But it is worrying to note that despite the government announced lockdowns for the entire country, still in many places people are not maintaining social distancing. Every day, hundreds of people gather at local bazaars, which are believed to be the hotspots of spreading and contracting the virus. Many people are entering and leaving Dhaka every day under the very nose of the members of the law enforcement agencies
In order to prevent community transmission,
it is necessary to implement a system to find
every suspected case at the community
In order to prevent community transmission , it is necessary to implement a system to find every suspected case at the community. In this regard, a two-week crash program to identify infected people across the country would be pertinent. Under this program, the health workers will go from house to house to collect the samples and send them to the laboratories. In this system, it will be possible to control the community transmission.
In this stage agressive measures to find, isolate, test, treat and trace are not only the best and fastest way out of extreme social and economic restrictions – they’re also the best way to prevent them. Let’s break the chain and protect our nation against this pandemic with social distancing and self isolation.
