By 30 December 2020, 512,496 cases and 7531 deaths were reported in the country. Bangladesh officially declared its first COVID-19 case on 8 March 2020. As of 29 December 2020, SARS-CoV-2 infected more than 81 million people worldwide, with 1,784,533 deaths. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared this disease a pandemic on 11 March 2020. SARS-CoV-2, a novel enveloped RNA beta coronavirus, has manifested a variety of clinical characteristics from asymptomatic infection to severe pneumonia, vasculitis and death. An optimal post-recovery follow-up strategy to allow the safe return of COVID-19 patients to the workforce may be considered. Our findings suggest the need for COVID-19 vaccination and continuing other preventive measures to further mitigate the pandemic. After a second course of treatment and home isolation, all patients fully recovered. Though all cases reported fair risk perceptions towards COVID-19, all had potential exposure sources for reinfection. All had mild symptoms except for one who was hospitalized. Five patients (60% male with a mean age of 41 years) had real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (rRT-PCR) diagnosed recurrence (reinfection) of SARS-CoV-2.
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In total, 522 (38%) were positive 38% from urban Dhaka (483/1261) and 36% from the rural clinical site Matlab (39/109). From 21 March to 30 September 2020, 1370 icddr,b employees working at either the Dhaka (urban) or Matlab (rural) clinical sites were tested for COVID-19. icddr, b staff were actively tested, treated and followed-up for COVID-19 by an experienced team of clinicians, epidemiologists, and virologists.
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The International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), is a leading public health research institution in South Asia.
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We report a case series of five clinically and laboratory confirmed COVID-19 patients from Bangladesh who suffered a second episode of COVID-19 illness after 70 symptom-free days. To date, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) has infected over 80 million people globally.