The rise in coronavirus cases in India is posing a threat to neighboring Bangladesh. Health experts caution about impending vaccine shortages at a time; when the country should be ramping up its vaccination campaign and more infectious virus types are being discovered.
On Saturday, health officials proclaimed that a coronavirus strain discovered in India had been found in Bangladesh for the first time rise in coronavirus cases, without giving further details. South African variants have occupied the samples sequenced in Bangladesh for weeks. There are fears that these variants will evolve more quickly and that first-generation vaccine will be less successful against them.
It’s online! The latest COVID-19 surge in Bangladesh correlates with increasing detection of the B.1.351 variant – @GlobalHealthBMJ
We’ve been conducting genomic surveillance in Bangladesh since April 2020. Here, we report major changes in circulating SARS-CoV-2. 1/n pic.twitter.com/SUjWDHbEjE— Senjuti Saha, PhD (@senjutisaha) May 6, 2021
Experts claim that, for unknown reasons, declining infections in Bangladesh over the last two weeks relative to March and early April offered the ideal chance for the country to ramp up vaccinations.
“This is the time to vaccinate, keep outbreaks down, and ensure that new strains do not appear here,” said Senjuti Saha, a scientist at Child Health Research Foundation of Bangladesh who is also sequencing the virus.
However, as it deals with a domestic problem, India has prohibited the sale of vaccines. Bangladesh expected to receive 30 million vaccine doses — 5 million doses every month — from the Serum Institute of the country by June.
However, the institute has only delivered 7 million doses and has halted additional shipments since February.
“It created a real problem,” said Dr. A.S.M. Alamgir of the government Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control, and Research.
Fearing shortages, the government stopped encouraging people to enroll for a first vaccine dose late last month, and administration of second doses still slowed.
The heavily populated nation of 160 million people is urgently looking for alternative vaccine routes outside of India and is attempting to manufacture Russian and Chinese vaccines at home by introducing technologies from both nations. Bangladesh is awaiting 500,000 doses of Chinese vaccines as a gift from Beijing next week and has also requested assistance from the United States.
Dr. Mustafizur Rahman, a scientist at the International Center for Diarrheal Disease Research in Dhaka, said threats from new variants remained a major concern, especially in the absence of vaccines.
About the fact that the border with India has closed to citizens, goods continue to cross. Virus sequencing has limited in Bangladesh, as it has been in other nations, including the United States. As a result, there could be blind spots.
“We can not rule out the possibility of the Indian version causing a new wave in Bangladesh. “Our frontier with India is porous,” Alamgir said.
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Since the first COVID-19 case discovered, Bangladesh has reported 770,842 suspected virus cases and 11,833 deaths.
While the national lockdown has postponed until at least May 16, many companies, markets, and local transit remain congested. Despite the ban, thousands of people are expected to leave for their villages to celebrate Eid al-Fitr.
“If we fail to maintain protection protocols around the world, the virus will, without a doubt, make its normal progression,” he said.
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