Disease Control Division
Directorate General of Health Services
Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh

28 May, 2020

Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 11thMarch 2020, caused by SARS-CoV-2 virus is at exponentially rising state across the globe. Bangladesh is also facing the toll of this highly transmissible zoonotic disease with community transmission(at different rate)across the country. This is a new coronavirus, still evolving, and has put the scientific authority in a puzzle. The epidemic curve of this pandemic, which started in Wuhan of China and had spread to rest of the world, showed a typical pattern of being slow to start with steep rise in few days and the leading to a quick upsurge and thus collapsing the health system of affected country very quickly.The number of affected cases and deaths both have become exponential during this pandemic. WHO considers the agent as highly infectious and urges every nation to take it most seriously.To handle the pandemic,the strategy is containment. The peak can be delayed or more precisely be flattened by isolation of cases, quarantine of contacts and physical distancing of people. Early diagnosis can help by identifying cases and areas for individual and group isolation.From ‘draconian’ process of complete lockdown to confirmatory diagnosis and isolation is being practiced by almost every nation.