Health minister expresses concern over rising Covid cases
Health Minister Zahid Maleque has expressed concern over the rising rate of Covid-19 infections.
He was talking in a briefing at the Secretariat today.
"Covid-19 infection rate came down below 2% in the country, but it is rising now and showing trends over 6% in past few days," the health minister said.
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He said, "People are going on vacation trips and attending various programmes without wearing masks as if Covid-19 is no more in the country. This could be reason behind the rise of virus cases."
The health minister said that the ministry has recommended for mobile court to make wearing mask compulsory. Besides, directives have been given to keep coronavirus unit prepared in very hospital.
Zahid Maleque also said that Education Ministry will take the final decision on reopening country's educational institutions. However, if the pandemic situation worsens, the reopening decision will be reviewed.
The number of infections and deaths from the coronavirus has been increasing recently in Bangladesh.
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The situation might worsen as people have not been following safety measures since the vaccination started, said health experts.
Doctors say they are also seeing more and more young and healthy people getting infected.
The infection rate had been below 5% for about two months, but started to rise again in March.
Besides, most of the new Covid-19 patients are young people.
