Download This PaperContainment Strategy during COVID-19 Outbreak - Analysis of Hospitals Hotspots in Dhaka to prevent Community Transmission
10 Pages Posted: 24 Apr 2020
Date Written: April 21, 2020
Abstract
When a novel virus with pandemic potential emerges, containment strategies are the most amenable interventions to demur transmission of the virus in communities. Containment strategy is a set of actions that persons and communities can take to help slow the spread of respiratory virus infections (Implementation of Mitigation Strategies for Communities with Local COVID-19 Transmission, 2020). In this paper, hotspot analysis is being used to develop a strategy for reducing the uncertainties of community transmission in Dhaka city. Designated hospitals, health centres, as well as the screening point at the city, are considered as the burgeoning point for the hotspot analysis. Moreover, the numbers of confirmed contagions cases in Bangladesh allow us to draw an interesting conclusion and help to develop a containment cluster strategy to reduce containment. This paper also develops a framework for actions which local and state health departments can recommend in their community to both prepare for and mitigate community transmission of COVID-19 in the different districts of Bangladesh. Nevertheless, it must be recalled that the analysis is based on a much smaller number of data as the availability of COVID-19 data is limited.
Keywords: COVID-19, Hotspots, Containtment Strategy, Community Transmission
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