DGHS DG regrets saying virus to remain for 2-3 yrs or more

The director general of the health directorate regretted that, due to time constraints, he had failed to revise the script before reading out the health bulletin online, said a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on Friday.

He later realised that that the statement may create confusion and so the matter was clarified in a press release at the daily bulletin.

The health directorate issued the press release referring to a statement made by the DG DGHS, Abul Kalam Azad, to the effect that the prevalence of coronavirus would not clear up within two or three months, but would last for two or three years, or even more.

In the press release signed by the assistant director of the health directorate, Md Jahangir Kabir, it was said that misunderstanding had been created over a certain statement made by the DG DGHS Abul Kalam Azad for which the DG was extremely sorry.

The release said, in a press release read out at the health bulletin on Thursday regarding the DG’s statement that had created confusion, it was stated that according to the experience of various countries as well as health scientists and public health experts, the coronavirus situation around the world would not clear up in one, two or three months. Until a vaccine was discovered and successfully tested among an adequate number of people, coronavirus would remain in the countries. So that meant this may stay for over a year, two years or three years, even though we feel the rate of transmission will subside.

At the regular health bulletin, the DG of the health directorate had said, “According to the experience of various countries as well as the advice of health scientists and public health experts, the coronavirus situation around the world would not clear up in one, two or three months. It will remain for over a year, two years, three years, or even more, though the rate of transmission may not be so high.”