As Bangladesh has passed a little over 100 days combating the highly contagious coronavirus since March 8, experts urged the authorities concerned to come up with more effective measures to reduce the detection rate.
Bangladesh on Tuesday saw the highest-ever jump in coronavirus cases and deaths in a single day as the health authorities confirmed the detection of 3,862 new patients and record 53 deaths in the span of 24 hours, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said.
With this, the death toll rose to 1,262 and the number of confirmed cases in the country reached 94,481.
According to the DGHS, the detection rate of new patients on Tuesday has been recorded at 22.44 percent.
Against the total number of detected cases, the recovery rate is 38.38 percent and the mortality rate is 1.34 percent in the country.
“Even the rate of detection is on the rise, it has been hovering around 20-21 percent in proportion to the scale of testing since May 25. It neither increases nor decreases. So, more effective steps need to be taken to reduce the infection rate,” said Professor Dr. Nazrul Islam, a former Vice Chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University.
He stressed on strict enforcing of lockdown and carrying out pathological activities and observations in a balanced way.
Former director of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Professor Be-Nazir Ahmed said the government was able to control the people for few days from March 25 showing a slowdown before Eid holidays though questions remained on the limited scale of testing capacity.
“Now I can see an upward trend now since everything reopened ahead and after Eid-ul-Fitar,” he claimed.
Even the infection goes up with a slow rate, there are still easy ways to control it and if the authorities work properly, the peak may not be very high, he observed.
Earlier, Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) Advisor Mushtaq Hossain told the Bangladesh Post, “Infection in the country is on the rise now; it must descend from the top to the bottom again once effective measures will be taken.”
The sooner the controlling measures are implemented, the sooner we will move forward, he emphasized.
