ABSTRACT
Bangladesh recorded its first case of COVID-19 on March 7, 2020, but many believed that the then-novel coronavirus had already entered the country long before its first official identification. The syndemics of structured disparities remain as the leading causes of the severe effects of the disease in this country, given that Bangladesh has a dense population and limited resources, including health facilities and healthcare providers. Bangladesh is a Southeast Asian lower-to middle-income country of approximately 147,570 square kilometers. The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported that when the number of people testing positive for COVID-19 drops below 5%, then the first wave of COVID-19 is over. The government urged the country’s people to maintain mandatory physical distancing to limit viral spread, yet many did not comply, and thus community transmission continued. While in Bangladesh, as elsewhere, biomedicine is hegemonic, medical pluralism abounds.
