Govt forms advisory committee to tackle Covid-19 spread
Covid-19 in Bangladesh
19 April, 2020, 03:30 pm
Last modified: 19 April, 2020, 05:17 pm
The committee is headed by Professor Dr Mohammad Shahidullah, senior child specialist and president of Bangladesh medical and dental council
A computer image created by Nexu Science Communication together with Trinity College in Dublin, shows a model structurally representative of a betacoronavirus which is the type of virus linked to COVID-19, better known as the coronavirus linked to the Wuhan outbreak, shared with Reuters on February 18, 2020. NEXU Science Communication/via Reuters
The government has formed a national technical committee with 17 specialists to tackle the spread of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19).
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare published a circular in this regard today.
The committee is headed by Professor Dr Mohammad Shahidullah, senior child specialist and president of Bangladesh medical and dental council.
Director of the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), Dr Meerjady Sabrina Flora is member-secretory of the committee.
So far the death toll from the deadly virus rises to 91 and the number of total infected person stands at 2,456 in the country.
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