Epidemiology of COVID-19 in Bangladesh
The novel coronavirus outbreak was announced as a public health emergency of international concern on the 30th of January, 2020 by the World Health Organization (WHO) and as a controllable pandemic on the 11th of March [17]. As of July 20, 2020, a total of 14,845,850 people had been infected by the virus and 612,815 people had died of the disease globally [10]. The worst-hit country being the USA with almost 4 million confirmed cases which constitutes almost 27% of the total cases and 143,834 fatalities. In Europe, Russia was the country with the highest number of confirmed cases by July 20, 2020; a total of 777,486 people were infected and 12,427 persons had died. The global distribution of confirmed COVID-19 cases has been illustrated in Figure 02. [10].