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Bangladesh: Epidemiological Highlights Week 38 (21-27 September 2020)

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Highlights:

  • Acute Respiratory Infection (26.4%), Diarrheal Diseases (5.1%) & Unexplained Fever (2.7%) are the diseases with highest proportional morbidity in week 38.

  • Total consultation is showing an increasing trend as well as syndromic condition with similar phenomena.

  • Reduction of total consultation number in the camps indicated changes in specific health seeking behavior of refugee population in an earlier phase of the outbreak.

  • Community-based mortality surveillance has included SARI death in weekly reporting. Nine (09) SARI death has been reported so far since started in week 27.