Bangladesh must enact widespread surveillance and social distancing measures

The ongoing spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) that originated in Wuhan, China, has caused more than 400,000 confirmed cases and more than 19,000 deaths across 172 countries. The disease has death rates as high as 10-27 percent in people over 85, and 3-11 percent among people aged 65-84 years. In Bangladesh, there have been 44 officially confirmed cases of