COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh

Circles for confirmed infections.
(As of May 30, 2020)

The COVID-19 pandemic is occurring in Bangladesh as part of the global COVID-19 pandemic that began in China in December 2019. The pandemic affects the novel disease COVID-19 . This is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus from the Coronaviridae group and belongs to the group of respiratory diseases . From March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) classified the outbreak of the novel coronavirus as a global pandemic.

course

On February 1, 2020, 312 Bangladeshi nationals were flown out of Wuhan. Most of them were students and PhD students or their family members. The returnees were extensively tested and quarantined, none of which tested positive.

On March 8, 2020, the first COVID-19 cases were confirmed in Bangladesh. They were two people who had returned from Italy and a family member. These cases first appeared in the WHO situation reports on March 9, 2020. On March 20, 2020, the first curfew related to the pandemic was imposed in the Madaripur district .

More than 100 infected people were reported on April 6, 2020, a week later, on April 13, over 1,000 and another three weeks later, on May 3, over 10,000 infected people. This number had already doubled on May 14, and a week later (May 21) there were over 30,000 infected people. The first death occurred in mid-March 2020, in mid-April there were over 100, and on 25 May 2020 over 500 deaths.

statistics

The number of cases developed during the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh as follows:

Infections

Confirmed infections (cumulative) in Bangladesh
(April 16 to August 16, 2020) according to WHO data

New infections in Bangladesh
(April 16 to August 16, 2020) according to WHO data

Deaths

Confirmed deaths (cumulative) in Bangladesh
(April 16 to August 16, 2020) according to WHO data

Confirmed deaths (daily) in Bangladesh
(April 16 to August 16, 2020) according to WHO data

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Since August 17, 2020, the WHO reports have only been published weekly, but contain additional information (around cases per million inhabitants). The last daily WHO report ( No. 209 , pdf) was published on August 16, 2020.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Cases reported to WHO by national authorities are listed here. Since the situation is very dynamic, there may be discrepancies or delays between the cases of the WHO and the data of national authorities as well as the information provided by other bodies, such as the Johns Hopkins University (CSSE).

See also

• List of epidemics and pandemics
• List of deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic

Web links

Commons : COVID-19 Pandemic in Bangladesh  - Pictures, Videos and Audio Files Collection

• World Health Organization (WHO): Coronavirus disease (COVID-2019) situation reports on the website www.who.int (English)
• Johns Hopkins CSSE : Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases. (English)
• Website World of Meters : real-time data of the Corona virus pandemic (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pulmonologists on the net: Covid-19: Causes . Online at www.lungenaerzte-im-netz.de. Retrieved April 5, 2020.
2. ↑ Tagesschau: "Deeply worried". WHO speaks of corona pandemic . March 11, 2020. Online at www.tagesschau.de. Retrieved April 5, 2020.
3. ↑ Expats asked to call IEDCR if in difficulties. New Age , February 25, 2020, accessed April 12, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Bangladesh confirms its first three cases of coronavirus. Reuters, March 8, 2020, accessed on March 28, 2020 . 
5. ↑ World Health Organization: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Situation Report . Online at www.who.int. Retrieved April 6, 2020.
6. ↑ Bangladesh sees first lockdown in Madaripur. United News of Bangladesh, March 20, 2020, accessed April 12, 2020 (e). 
7. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Coronavirus disease (COVID-2019) situation reports. WHO, accessed on May 11, 2020 .