Staff Reporter :
Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on Wednesday said coronavirus is spreading fast in the country due to new variant that contributes the rise of both fatalities and infection in recent days.
“Bangladesh has been passing through the second wave of coronavirus infection and the rising of fatalities are due to the new variant,” Dr Md Robed Amin, spokesperson of the DGHS said this in a daily bulletin on Wednesday.
He urged the media not to create confusion over vacant beds in government’s covid dedicated hospitals.
The spokesman said, “Different media published news that there is no empty beds in government hospitals. It is not true. Some 1,200 more beds are still vacant in government’s covid dedicated hospitals in the capital. You can easily know about the number of vacant beds and ICU seats.”
He informed that some 243 ICU beds out of 1,005 remained vacant for Covid treatment.
He also urged the law enforcing agencies to make the movement of health workers obstacle free.
The DGHS official also urged all to abide by the health safety rules strictly to cut infections.
