Health Desk- 8 Feb,
2020: The health directorate said there’s no necessity for healthy persons
to wear mask as preventive measure for Coronavirus.
“There is no need of using masks for healthy persons. Only
the people who are suffering from sneezing and cough will wear mask while going
outside home. But the masks will have to be kept in bin which remains covered,”
Prof. Dr. Meerjady Sabrina Flora, Director of Institute of Epidemiology Disease
Control and Research (IEDCR) said in a statemen.
She came up with the suggestion while addressing a press
briefing at the IEDCR on Friday about giving latest update of the deadly Novel
Coronavirus (2019-nCoV).
Meerjady Sabrina Flora said the passengers who have returned
from Wuhan of China recently and have been quarantined at Ashkona Hajj Camp in
the capital are now doing well.
The flight pilot and cabin crews are also under observation
and they have been suggested to remain quarantined in their houses for 14 days.
She said the passengers who have returned from China
recently and have been quarantined at Ashkona Hajj Camp, Kurmitola General
Hospital and Combined Military Hospital (CMH)in the capital are now doing well.
According to the IEDCR,it has received 900 calls for inquiry
over coronavirus. So far, some 53 have gone through coronavirus tests. But no
one has been diagnosed with the virus yet. The government has decided to put
passengers coming from China or those who had visited China in the last 14 days
under quarantine.
According to the IEDCR, a total of8396 people have been
screened at the airport in Bangladesh till Friday from January 21.
The Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control and Research
(IEDCR) has opened four hotlines in Dhaka for creating awareness on novel
coronavirus. The Bangladesh government
has taken different preventive measures in the wake of the outbreak of
coronavirus in China and other countries.
As part of the measures, the IEDCR launched the hotlines.
The hotlines are 01937110011, 01937000011, 01927711784 and 01927711785.
Addressing a press conference, the Health and Family Welfare
Minister Zahid Maleque on Thursday said the government will address the mask
shortage concern, but urged people not to buy those in panic while he said
Japan has assured them of providing 7 million masks soon.
Citing experts’ advice, the health minister said there is no
need of using masks for healthy persons.
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