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Monday, May 25, 2020
On 25 May 2020, Bangladesh reported the highest number of infections in the country – the infections in last 24 hours totalled 1975.
The first three covid-19 cases were detected in March 8, 2020. Within two weeks,the government closed all schools and public offices and mandated strict lockdown measures.
But some people in Bangladesh,despite the presence of the police and the army on the streets,are devising various ways of defying lockdown measures. TV channels show live coverage of people wandering around streets, many of them without masks or any other protections,although the police is strictly overseeing these issues. The Police were complaining that people were making myriads of excuses to leave their homes and go to places. Some people are not taking this pandemic seriously,despite calls to stay at home -a reckless attitude exemplified during the recent relaxation of lockdown measures. Some people were going to markets before Eid-ul- fitre,one of the most important occasions in the lives of the majority Muslim community of the country, with the whole family and not maintaining social distancing measures as required.
The minister for road communications and general secretary of the ruling party,Obaidul Quader commented that-“You can cheat the police,but you can’t cheat corona.”
Indeed it’s hard to cheat the virus in world’s one of the most densly populated countries on the earth. Furthermore,the Rohingya crisis and the recent cyclone Amphan have added more complications to the containment of the virus.
The government has appointed thousands of nurses and doctors within a month of the crisis. Yet,the need of more health-care infrastructures and facilities have been hotly debated and discussed among experts as well as the general public.There are growing calls to appoint more medical technologists,something the health ministry has promised to ensure. There are reports of discrepancies of the test results from suspected covid-19 patients,although there have been some progress in this case. More than 35,000 infections and 500 deaths are not yet the end of the game covid-19 is playing with the South Asian country,as it is not confirmed whether the country has reached its peak of infections.
The people of Bangladesh largely depend on the informal sector to live,and they are struggling to survive.The government has launched a widespread food and aid distribution programme,and many people have been arrested in connection with irregularities of the distribution process.
Yet the people are optimistic,as on the day of Eid,they pray to Allah for recovery from covid-19.