ReviewHeliyon2021
Insights into the first seven-months of COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh: lessons learned from a high-risk country.
Review in Heliyon, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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35 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Toward the Prevention of COVID-19 in Bangladesh: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in medicine · 2022Pooled it
- The impact of COVID-19 on mortality among diabetic and hypertensive individuals in coastal communities in Bangladesh: evidence from chakaria health and demographic surveillance system.Population health metrics · 2026Article
- Association Between Serum Ferritin and Disease Severity in COVID-19 Patients in Bangladesh: A Cross-Sectional Study.Cureus · 2026Article
- A cross-sectional study on depression, anxiety, and stress among the Bangladeshi population amid COVID-19.Discover mental health · 2025Article
- Excess mortality during COVID-19 and prediction of mortality in Bangladesh: an analysis based on death records in urban graveyards.Journal of global health · 2025Article
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- Estimating Economic Losses in Commercial Chicken Farms During COVID-19 Pandemic in Bangladesh: Lessons Learned for Future Pandemic.Transboundary and emerging diseases · 2025Article
- Excess mortality during COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh - evidence from a rural survey.Journal of global health · 2024Article
- Unveiling the dimension of regional disparities: Assessing the disruption of immunisation services by COVID-19 in Bangladesh.Journal of global health · 2024Article
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- Protection of staff and families during COVID-19 pandemic: experience from a research institute in Bangladesh.The Lancet regional health. Southeast Asia · 2024Review
- COVID-19 in Bangladesh: Wave-centric assessments and mitigation measures for future pandemics.Heliyon · 2023Review
- Assessment of COVID-19 management and its consequences on healthcare professionals: a cross-sectional study from Bangladesh.BMJ open · 2023Article
- Factors Associated with Reported COVID-like Symptoms and Seroprevalence Data Matched with COVID-like Symptoms in Slums and Non-Slums of Two Major Cities in Bangladesh.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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- Systems thinking on the gendered impacts of COVID-19 in Bangladesh: A systematic review.Heliyon · 2023Review
- Excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-2021) in an urban community of Bangladesh.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
- Megacity-centric mass mobility during Eid holidays: a unique concern for infectious disease transmission in Bangladesh.Tropical medicine and health · 2022Article
- Health and nutritional status of children hospitalized during the COVID-19 pandemic, Bangladesh.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2022Article
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Abstract
South Asian countries have been struggling to control the COVID-19 pandemic despite imposing months of lockdown and other public health measures. This review aims to describe the epidemiological features and shortcomings in public health preparedness to tackle COVID-19 as well as derive lessons from these events in the context of Bangladesh. We have shown that an increase in human mobility was evident throughout the lockdown period. Over 20,000 frontline health workers were affected, and more than 2100 unofficial deaths possibly linked with COVID-19 diagnosis were reported. Males were disproportionately affected in terms of infection (71%) and death (77%) than females. Over 50% of infected cases were reported among young adults (20-40-year age group). After seven months into the pandemic, a downward trend in laboratory test positive percentage was seen, although the number of new deaths per day remained largely unchanged. We believe our findings, observations and recommendations will remain as a valuable resource to facilitate better public health practice and policy for managing current and future infectious disease like COVID-19 in resource-poor developing countries.
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