As much as 27.6 percent of the patients are aged 21-30 and 27.1 percent are aged 31-40. Dr Be-Nazir Ahmed, an adviser to the World Health Organization, said more young people are getting infected in the ongoing second wave of COVID-19 in Bangladesh. Dr Mushtuq said young people are more vulnerable to contracting the virus because they go out, while the elderly members of their families are getting infected through the young. Dhaka also tops the list of divisions in terms of deaths from COVID-19 with 5,854, or over 58 percent of the total victims. “Deaths will be naturally high where infection rate is high,” said Dr Be-Nazir.

Source: bd News24 April 15, 2021 21:22 UTC