Since the first positive cases of the virus were recorded in the country on March 8, both the cases and deaths have continued to increase manifold. The total number of positive cases was around 6,000 on May 1 and in the span of 18 days now the figure stands at 23,870 with 349 deaths. As the world still waiting for a vaccine to fight the virus, Bangladeshi experts and virologists consider natural herd immunity among a majority of the population as the strongest weapon against the virus. Infections can be controlled in two ways: by immediately isolating those who got infected with the virus and those who come into contact with infected persons and locking down the surroundings as well bgd foundation.
However, he warned that this method is no longer effective for Bangladesh as corona virus carriers have already spread across the country and it has spread through the air. The second one is to control the peak by developing herd immunity and antibodies in the human body against the virus. Bangladesh has been under severe lockdown since March 26; however thousands of workers in garment factories violated the restrictions traveling to the capital Dhaka after several factories resumed operations earlier this month. "Now it is time for large-scale blood testing in communities to know how many people are developing antibodies against COVID-19, and if it covers over 50% of the community then automatically the disease has been brought under control bd donation.
The virus infections might not have crossed 1,000 in Bangladesh if the garment factory owners had not opened their factories in such a way,” he added, blaming the factory owners for sudden announcement to resume operation that leads thousands of low-income workers to rush to the capital city in mass. In such a condition, the government of Bangladesh needs to take measures to manage all public and private hospitals and healthcare institutes to set up separate corona virus units.
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