Due to the new type of infection of the neighboring country of India, India, the country’s borders with the country and the ports of Bangladesh along with the country, as well as screening or health examinations have been strengthened at all airports, Dhaka officials say.
India’s Health Department has warned about traveling to those countries where coronavirus infection has increased.
The news release advises not to travel to those countries without the need.
Meanwhile, about 1.5 years later, there has been new concerns as the death of a person in COVID-19 ‘in Bangladesh has come to the fore.
A man of 81 to 90 years old at a private hospital in Dhaka last Thursday died of coronavirus, the Health Department said.
The death of this death has renewed the current situation of COVID-19.
However, the Department of Health and Public Health experts say there is nothing to worry about.
Farhad Hossain, director of the Department of Health Health Services, said the corona virus is more infected in hot weather. Other years have also increased the incidence of coronavirus since May, this year.
According to the Department of Health, in April this year, the number of COVID-19 infections in the country was 23. In May, the number rose to 86. And 36 people were attacked in the first eight days of June, and one died.
In such a situation, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has advised taking preventive measures to prevent infection.
According to the notice, everyone in the public area is being requested to wear masks, considering the rise in the COVID-19 infection rate. Especially the elderly and sick people are advised to avoid such a place.
Farhad Hossain said it was possible to prevent infection with such precautionary measures. Moreover, the person who died was suffering from various physical complications.
The Health Department said some new variants were identified this time. Thailand, China, as well as the spread of new variants in neighboring India, have been reported spreading new variants.
According to the International Lomming Research Center, Bangladesh ICDDRB, one of the reasons for increasing the infection this year is that of the new two new sub-variants XFG and XFC. Those are a sub -branch of Omicron JN.1.
Samples that have recently been foundAlmost all of them have been identified in XFG variants. The infection rate of this variant is high. Public health experts have warned that it is expected to spread rapidly if hygiene.
In this case, they advise the elderly, physically vulnerable or in the past, to adhere to hygiene. Because this variant can be fatal for them.
Meanwhile, another new variant, called NB.1.8.1, has spread to the neighboring country, the World Health Organization said. This has been reported through the genetic sequence test.
According to a bulletin from the World Health Organization, published on May 23rd, the variant is spreading very fast and its infection rate is relatively high.
According to data from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of India, most infections have been seen in Kerala in South India. Then the Gujarat and West Bengal positions. These places have been identified as ‘hotspots of infection’.
The Bangladesh Health Ministry fears that this new variant can also enter Bangladesh through the border with India.
For this reason, necessary steps have been strengthened to comply with screenings, including screenings in all land, naval, and airports, including Benapole. Suspicious passengers have also been instructed to increase genital examination and surveillance.
On June 4, a directive from the Department of Health said that health check-ups and health messages will be provided with the help of the immigration and IHR health desk to the IHR health desk. As well as the health test is requested to be conducted closely.
In the meantime, the Benapole Checkpost Immigration officials in charge of the medical desk have been shown to scrutinize whether the coroners of the passengers returning from India have been scrutinized.
If someone has corn symptoms in the body, then he has been asked to do the isolation at the Upazila Health Complex.
Meanwhile, the Railway Ministry has issued a warning that the risk of infection may increase after the EID holidays. In a government letter, everyone has been asked to comply with hygiene.
According to a letter signed by Senior Information Officer of the Railway Ministry, Rezaul Karim Siddiqui on Sunday, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has requested that all to wear masks in public areas, considering the rising rate of Covid-19 infections.
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, especially the elderly and sick people, has been advised to avoid crowded places.
Public health experts have warned that the virus may be at risk for those who suffer from older age, kidney disease, pregnant women, cancer patients, asthma, or other chronic illnesses. Moshtaq Hossain.
He said that any variant of Covid could be at risk for the elderly, pregnant and those already infected with complex diseases. In this case, he advised the common people to adhere to hygiene again.
“From now on, we need to start regular handwashing, using sanitizers, wearing masks, and avoiding crowds.”
He also advised all those who go to the hospital for treatment or who will give treatment to all those who are undergoing treatment, and to practice hygiene such as washing hands. “
According to the Department of Health, in Bangladesh, most of the foreign passengers are on the Covid vaccine in most cases.
The immunization program has informed that the government has adequate vaccination, but people are not interested in taking the vaccine.
At an EPI meeting held on April 22, it was proposed to encourage the at-risk population to vaccinate.
As well as public health expert Mostaq Hossain, the government has emphasized vaccinating at risk from the government level.
The first corona patient was identified in Bangladesh on March 8, 2020 and the first death occurred on March 18.
Then, on June 8, 2025, a total of 2p lakh 51 thousand 742 people in the country were attacked, died of 29 thousand 500 people died.
Though no one died in 2024, 37 people died in 2023 and one thousand 368 died in 2022.
Both the Department of Health and the World Health Organization think that even though the coronavirus infection is currently increasing, there is no need to panic now.
Farhad Hossain, director of the Department of Health, said that this situation could be controlled by following awareness, personal protection, and hygiene.
