The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) is discontinuing its daily online briefing on the Covid-19 situation soon, months after it stopped taking questions from the media. Health Minister Zahid Maleque said told bdnews24.com about the decision on Monday when the number of coronavirus cases in Bangladesh in the daily count remained around 3,000 with 30 deaths. The health minister said he did not consider the daily briefing necessary anymore since the situation has “improved”. Bangladesh launched the daily briefing on Feb 8 when the pandemic began in China and spread to Europe. The then director general of health services, Abul Kalam Azad, also appeared some times while Zahid joined from home.

Source: bd News24 August 11, 2020 04:52 UTC