The country's health sector looks ill-equipped to tackle a massive surge in Covid cases or anything close to the situation in India.
Though there have been some improvements in management capacity over the last year, experts say it is far from enough.
The government is yet to set up ICU facilities in 29 district-level public hospitals while the number of daily Covid-19 tests is still inadequate.
Besides, most of the 421 upazila health complexes lack the necessary human resources and life-saving equipment like high-flow oxygen supply, crucial to treating critical Covid-19 patients.
Although the country has been experiencing a decreasing trend in daily infection rate and death since mid-April, it has started rising steeply again in the last three days -- 1,608 new cases yesterday from 261 on May 15.