COVID -19 Pandemic and Level of Responses in Bangladesh

Background: Bangladesh is a South East Asian natural beautiful middle income country. Its economy is flourishing rapidly. In the last decade immense development has been noticed in every sphere of life including women empowerment. However, incidence of COVID-19 Pandemic has influenced every sector of Bangladesh badly. COVID-19 is the pandemic disease declared by World Health Organization (WHO) on 11th March 2020 [1] which is potentially severe acute respiratory infection caused by a novel evolving severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus2 (SARSCoV-2). The virus was identified as the cause of an outbreak of pneumonia of unknown cause in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China, in December 2019. The clinical presentation is that of a respiratory infection with a symptom severity ranging from a mild influenza like illness, to a severe viral pneumonia leading to acute respiratory distress syndrome that is potentially fatal. Globally 199 countries are reported to have the pandemic going on and the situation is evolving rapidly with global case counts and deaths increasing each day. The World Health Organization rates the global risk assessment as very high and community transmission is occurring in many countries, but it is uncertain how easily the virus spreads between people. Bangladesh is also declared the COVID-19 infection reported from Directorate General of Health Service on daily basis with 48 confirmed case and 5 death having community transmission (dated 28th March, 2020) [2]. However, COVID-19 community transmission and death tolls are the burning issues of the present world. So, the researchers designed this study to explore an over view on COVID-19 situation in Bangladesh as of 14th May, 2020, on the basis of secondary literature review. Methods: This study was a descriptive secondary literature review conducted by International Online Journals Hubs (IOJH)A Dynamic Center for Research Consultancy & Publication, Dhaka, Bangladesh during 8th March to 14th May, 2020. During this study, the researchers of IOJH reviewed the update press release, provided by IEDCR, varieties of newspapers, electronic news media, Google Wikipedia and update report provided by World Health Organization (WHO) on Corona Virus (COVID-19) situation in Bangladesh. Then the researchers check and cross check the update data to finalize and confirm the concerned issue and variables of this study. The researchers used simple statistical tools to analyze the collected data. Results: As of 14 May, 2020, a total of 151930 samples were tested, of them 18863 COVID-19 positive cases were identified, of them, 283 people were died and 3361 people recovered from COVID-19. COVID-19 positive cases from 8 March to 31 March, 2020, during these 24 days total 51 positive cases were identified in Bangladesh. The average positive cases were 2.12 per day as of 31 March, 2020. COVID-19 positive cases from 1 April to 30 April, 2020, during these 30 days total 7616 positive cases were identified in Bangladesh. The average positive cases were 253.86 per day as of 30 April, 2020. COVID-19 positive cases from RevIew ARtIcle 1Chief Researcher, International Online Journal Hub-IOJH, Bangladesh 2Senior Consultant, International Online Journal Hub-IOJH, Bangladesh 3Director (Research & Development), International Online Journal Hub-IOJH, Bangladesh 4Public Relation Officer, International Online Journal Hub-IOJH, Bangladesh 5General Manager (Sales and Marketing), SA Group of Industries, Bangladesh 6Director (Communication), International Online Journal Hub-IOJH, Bangladesh 7Manager, International Online Journal Hub-IOJH, Bangladesh Check for updates ISSN: 2643-4571 DOI: 10.23937/2643-4571/1710019 Islam et al. Int J Rare Dis Disord 2020, 3:019 • Page 2 of 7 • bats to humans. Later, it has been spread to number of other countries around the world to a varying degree. The virus initially referred as 2019-nCoV and familiarly called “Wuhan corona virus”. World health organization named it as COVID-19 because it doesn’t refer to any geographical area, an animal, a person, or group people all of which can lead to stigma. The virus officially named as SARS CoV-2, which is genetically very similar to SARS Corona virus. Corona viruses are a large family of viruses that usually cause mild to moderate upper-respiratory tract illnesses namely common cold and respiratory distress [1]. However, three times in the 21st century corona virus outbreaks have arisen from animal reservoirs, now the present virus epidemic from Wuhan city, china. Most of the virus circulates among animals including pigs, camels, bats and cats. Rarely, animal corona viruses that infect animals have emerged to infect people and can spread. However, COVID-19 community transmission and death tolls are the burning issues of the present world. So, the researchers designed this study to explore an over view on COVID-19 situation in Bangladesh as of 14 May, 2020, on the basis of secondary literature review.