Islam Md Taimur, Talukder Anup Kumar, Siddiqui Md Nurealam, Islam Tofazzal
Department of Pathobiology.
Department of Gynecology, Obstetrics and Reproductive Health.
J Public Health Res. 2020 Oct 14;9(4):1794. doi: 10.4081/jphr.2020.1794.
An outbreak of a COVID-19 pandemic disease, caused by a novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, has posed a serious threat to global human health. Bangladesh has also come under the attack of this viral disease. Here, we aimed to describe the responses of Bangladesh to tackle the COVID-19, particularly on how Bangladesh is dealing with this novel viral disease with its limited resources. The first case of a COVID-19 patient was detected in Bangladesh on March 8, 2020. Since then, a total of 263,503 peoples are officially reported as COVID-19 infected with 3,471 deaths until August 11, 2020. To combat the COVID-19, the government has taken various steps diagnosis of the suspected cases, quarantine of doubted people and isolation of infected patients, local or regional lockdown, closure of all government and private offices, increase public awareness and enforce social distancing, . Moreover, to address the socio-economic situations, the government announced several financial stimulus packages of about USD 11.90 billion. However, the government got 3 months since the disease was first reported in China, but the country failed in making proper strategies including contact tracing, introducing antibody/antigen-based rapid detection kit, and also failed to make multi-disciplinary team to combat this disease. Further, limited testing facilities and inadequate treatment service along with public unawareness are the major challenges for Bangladesh to tackle this situation effectively. Along with the government, personal awareness and assistance of non-government organizations, private organizations, researchers, doctors, industrialists, and international organizations are firmly required to mitigate this highly contagious disease.
由新型冠状病毒SARS-CoV-2引起的COVID-19大流行疫情对全球人类健康构成了严重威胁。孟加拉国也受到了这种病毒性疾病的侵袭。在此，我们旨在描述孟加拉国应对COVID-19的举措，特别是该国如何利用其有限资源应对这种新型病毒性疾病。2020年3月8日，孟加拉国检测到首例COVID-19患者。从那时起，截至2020年8月11日，官方共报告263,503人感染COVID-19，其中3,471人死亡。为抗击COVID-19，政府采取了各种措施，包括对疑似病例进行诊断、对可疑人员进行隔离以及对感染患者进行隔离、实施地方或区域封锁、关闭所有政府和私人办公室、提高公众意识并强制保持社交距离等。此外，为应对社会经济形势，政府宣布了约119亿美元的多项财政刺激计划。然而，自中国首次报告该疾病以来，政府有3个月的时间，但该国未能制定包括接触者追踪、引入基于抗体/抗原的快速检测试剂盒等适当策略，也未能组建多学科团队来抗击这种疾病。此外，检测设施有限、治疗服务不足以及公众意识淡薄是孟加拉国有效应对这一局面的主要挑战。除了政府之外，个人意识以及非政府组织、私人组织、研究人员、医生、实业家和国际组织的协助对于减轻这种高传染性疾病至关重要。
