- Title
- Examining Bangladesh's responses to COVID-19 in light of Vietnam : lessons learned
- Creator
- Hilda, Nazmul; Uddin, Helal; Hasan, Kamrul; Malo, James Sujit; Duong, Minh Cuong; Rahman, Muhammad Aziz
- Date
- 2021
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/187231
- Identifier
- vital:17041
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.31646/gbio.123
- Identifier
- ISBN:2652-0036
- Abstract
- This review aimed to examine the extent of Bangladesh's COVID-19 preparedness and control measures up to 20 January 2021, and to draw some lessons for informing the current and future pandemic responses in Bangladesh in light of Vietnam's responses, which had successfully controlled the pandemic. We performed a content analysis of data to identify similarities and critical discrepancies in epidemiological features and COVID-19 responses between the two countries. Findings indicated that Vietnam reported lower COVID-19 incidence (15 cases per million) and death rate (0.4 cases per million) than Bangladesh, with 3,129 cases per million and a death rate of 46 cases per million. Vietnam reported only 35 deaths, with 22 older individuals (>60 years) compared with 7,950 deaths in Bangladesh, with the highest death rate in older people (45%). An integrated approach combined with widespread contact tracing, better health investment, vaccine development, and strong political commitment enabled Vietnam to control the disease and mitigate its impacts. In contrast, Bangladesh seemed to adopt inadequate and untimely measures in the same domains, potentially contributing to relatively high COVID-19 infections and death rates. To control COVID-19 or inform responses to future pandemics, Bangladesh and similar countries can learn eight lessons from Vietnam. Such transferable responses could prepare health systems and populations for an appropriate global response to the next potential pandemic.
- Publisher
- Ubiquity Press Ltd
- Relation
- Global Biosecurity Vol. 3, no. 1 (2021), p.
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Rights
- Copyright © 2021 The Author(s)
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- 4102 Ecological applications; Analysis; Bangladesh; Control measures; Covid-19; Epidemics; Epidemiology; Health aspects; Mortality; Response; Vietnam
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