BSS-41 Govt forms nat’l advisory committee to tackle Covid -19 spread

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Govt forms nat’l advisory committee to tackle Covid -19 spread

DHAKA, April 19, 2020 (BSS) – The government has formed a 17-member national technical advisory committee in a bid to tackle the spread of novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

A notification was issued in this regard here today signed by Shamima Nasrin, Deputy Secretary, Health Services Division (HSD) under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

Prof Dr Mohammad Shahidullah, president of Bangladesh Medical and Dental Council, will lead the committee, while Prof Dr Meerjady Sabrina Flora, director of Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) has been appointed as member-secretary of the committee, it added.

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