World Health Organization (WHO) Bangladesh increases support for the country’s contact tracing activities by bringing in 98 newly recruited staff and training over 1200 persons around the country in efforts to break the COVID-19 chain of transmission.
Together with DGHS, WHO worked since the beginning of the outbreak for expanding and strengthening contact tracing capacity countrywide, for proper identification of contacts of confirmed cases, guiding people for quarantine or isolation and limit the spread of the virus. “Contact tracing is an essential part in containing COVID-19 outbreak because early identification of contacts of confirmed cases followed by their quarantine, can break the chain of transmission.