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Strategies and their implications
Estimates suggest that the use of standard face masks, keeping social distancing and handwashing after coming in contact with external objects are no less important than vaccine, writes
Abu Muhammad Zakir Hussain
TWO strategies are followed globally to control Covid-19. Lockdown and other restrictions are one of the two implemented universally and the natural herd immunity along with other measures touted in Sweden. Some developing countries are unknowingly, in fact, pursuing the Swedish course, not because they planned this, but because of their inability at applying strong protective measures, including lockdown, effectively.
In this regard, it will also be of interest to see how much the toughest lockdown that came into force on July 23 in Bangladesh will fulfill our expectations the one from July 1 did not. We also discuss the probability of pursuing the Swedish model, some epidemiological aspects of the Covid outbreak in Banglad