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 (SARS-CoV-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 14 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 14 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 1 May to 14 May, 2020, during these 14 days total 11196 positive cases were identified in Bangladesh. The average positive cases were 799.71 per day as of 14 May, 2020. As of March 8 to May 14,2020, total COVID-19 positive cases were 18863 persons, of them ≤ 10 years were 3%, 11-20 years were 8%, 21-30 years were 26%, 31-40 years were 24%, 41-50 years were 18%, 51-60 years were 13% and above 60 years were 8%. Among the total positive cases,68% were male and 32% were female patients. During the first tests on 8 March to till May-1, 51,930 samples were tested, of them 18863 positive cases were identified. Average tests per day were 2234.26 and average positive cases per day were 277.39 identified. However, during this time, total 283 COVID positive patients were died. The average deaths were 4.16 persons per day. On the other hand, total 3361 patients were recovered from COVID-19. Amon the total positive cases, as of 14 May, 2020, a total of 283 COVID positive patients were died, of them ≤ 10 years were 2%, 11-20 years were 0%, 21-30 years were 3%, 31-40 years were 7%, 41-50 years were 19%, 51-60 years were 27% and above 60 years were 42%. Among the deaths, 73% were male and 27% were female. So it can be said male were more vulnearable to death than that of female COVID-19 positive cases.
Conclusions
From this study, it is vivid that Corona Virus (COVID-19) transmission is increasing in an alarming rate in Bangladesh, retiring all the government and non-government responses. Hence the national task force needs to be more strict to stop community transmission of corona virus as well as a high-tech technology needs to be introduced to the physicians and health workers to take care of the COVID-19 patients in Bangladesh to end this pandemic.
Keywords
Pandemic, COVID-19, Response
Introduction
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. The area of Bangladesh is about 1,47,570s km and about 160 million people live here with peace and amity. Naturally, the density of population of this country is very high in comparing to some other developed countries of the world. Hence, Corona Virus (COVID-19) Pandemic has become the worst threat to the life of the people of this country and its economy as well as development. Anyway, to the reference of medical science, corona viruses are enveloped as a non-segmented positive sense RNA viruses belonging to the family Coronaviridae and the Order Nidovirales and broadly distributed in humans and other mammals [3]. Currently estimates of the incubation period of the virus range from 2-10 days. COVID-19 was discovered in 2019, which is responsible for global pandemic. So far as we know, the first contamination was made from bats to the people of a market of Wuhan city in China where wild birds and beasts were sold. So, China is the first affected country and birth place of COVID-19 contamination from 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.
Objective
To explore an over view on Corona Virus (COVID-19) pandemic situation in Bangladesh.
Methodology and Materials
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 14 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 checked and cross checked 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 and Discussion
Figure 1 shows that 1st month (8th March, 2020 to 4th April, 2020) confirmed cases were not going up. From 5th April 2020, it was started increasing slowly and a peak on 9th May 2020. Then was started going up rapidly.