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Govt to consider technical committee’s advices to ease shutdown: Maleque
DHAKA, May 5, 2020 (BSS) – Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque today said the government will consider advices of the technical committee to ease the nationwide ongoing shutdown imposed to curb the spread of COVID-19 pandemic.
“We will give due importance on opinions of national committee formed comprising the leading health experts to reopen shops, shopping malls ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr,” he told journalists after a meeting with the technical advisory committee in the conference room of the health ministry here, an official release said.
Secretary of Health Service Division Ashadul Islam, Secretary of Health Education Division Ali Nur, Director General of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Prof Abul Kalam Azad and members of the 17-member committee, among others, attended the meeting.
At the meeting, the committee made recommendations including extending testing facilities of coronavirus at both government and private hospitals, increasing coordination between hospitals and ensuring smooth healthcare services for general patients.
It also suggested for proper use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to ensure safety of medical professionals from infection of the deadly virus.
A 17-member technical advisory committee, headed by Professor Dr Mohammad Shahidullah, senior child specialist and president of Bangladesh medical and dental council, was formed to tackle the spread of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country.
Director of the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), Prof Dr Meerjady Sabrina Flora is a member-secretary of the committee.
Bangladesh today reported one more death from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) overnight and recorded the highest number of 786 fresh positive cases in a single day.
The death toll from the pandemic in the country has so far stood at 183 and the tally of COVID-19 infections reached 10,929, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) sources said.
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