COVID-19: transmission, diagnosis, policy intervention, potential broader perspective on the rapidly evolving situation in Bangladesh

Abstract

Following the first outbreak of COVID-19 in China, various continents became serious and aware to combat against it, though degraded dramatically preventing it, due to its unique transmission strategy. On March 8, 2020, Bangladesh confirmed its first cases of COVID-19 with three people being infected and the first death was reported on March 18, 2020, until June 29, 2020, the total number of infected people and deaths reached to 141,801 and 1783, respectively. Bangladesh has strengthened its efforts to improve the health care system's ability, including COVID-19 diagnosis to prevent the crisis, following discovery of the first 100 reported cases of COVID-19 at the start of April. Though, the government of Bangladesh had put in place preventive measures, the country has no remarkable legislative structures for combating COVID-19 in which Bangladesh, the South Asian low-income economic country, is under very precarious conditions and is at the forefront of the threat of disease that can spread to over the 160 million people.The aim of this article is to describe the current Bangladesh situation as well as the consequences in the country due to COVID-19 and to describe how people are confronted with this pandemic.