National Guideline for Health Care Provider On Infection Prevention and Control ofCOVID-19 pandemic in Healthcare Setting

Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS)
Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
Government of Bangladesh

19 March, 2020

Coronaviruses (CoV), are RNA enveloped viruses have a large family, commonly found in human and in different animals.In human, Coronaviruses cause illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases. Animal coronaviruses rarely infect human like MERS-CoV, SARS-Cov and currently a novel coronavirus SARS CoV-2 has been infecting human, spreading with human-to-human transmission and causing disease as COVID-191. WHO declaredCOVID-19 a global pandemic on 11 March 2020.