Stamford University Bangladesh

Assignment
On
COVID 19 and its impact on service
industry

Submitted To:

Dr. Sara Sarwari

Associate Professors
Department of Business Administration
Stamford University Bangladesh

Submitted By:

MD. Mohyminul Islam

MBA 072 184 07

Stamford University Bangladesh

 COVID 19 and its impact on service
industry
COVID-19
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered
coronavirus.
Most people who fall sick with COVID-19 will experience mild to moderate symptoms and
recover without special treatment.
The virus that causes COVID-19 is mainly transmitted through droplets generated when an
infected person coughs, sneezes, or exhales. These droplets are too heavy to hang in the air,
and quickly fall on floors or surfaces.
You can be infected by breathing in the virus if you are within close proximity of someone who
has COVID-19, or by touching a contaminated surface and then your eyes, nose or mouth.

Covid 19 in Bangladesh
The COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-
CoV-2). The virus was confirmed to have spread to Bangladesh in March 2020. The first three
known cases were reported on 8 March 2020 by the country's epidemiology institute, IEDCR.
Since then, the pandemic has spread day by day over the whole nation and the number of
affected people has been increasing.

In order to protect the population, the government declared "lockdown" throughout the nation
from 23 March to 30 May and prepared some necessary steps to spread awareness to keep this
syndrome away from them.Infections remained low until the end of March but saw a steep rise
in April.In the week ending on 11 April, new cases in Bangladesh grew by 1,155 percent, the
highest in Asia, ahead of Indonesia, with 186 percent.On 6 May, cases were confirmed in all
districts. Rangamati was the last district to report confirmed cases of COVID-19. On 13 June,
the number of cases in Bangladesh exceeded the number of cases in China, the country where
the outbreak began. Bangladesh reached two grim milestones of 160,000 cases and 2,000
deaths on 5 July and overtook France in terms of the number of cases two days later. The
number of recoveries in the country exceeded the number of active cases on 12 July. As of
18 July 2020, there have been a total of 202,066 confirmed cases in the country, with 110,098
recoveries and 2,581 deaths.Bangladesh is the third most affected country in South Asia,
after India and Pakistan.
last update covid 19 in Bangladesh(21 July 2020)
Coronavirus Cases:
207,453

Deaths:
2,668

Recovered:
113,556

Covid 19 impact Bangladeshi service industry

The COVID-19 pandemic, however, is a crisis of a completely different magnitude and one that
will require a response of unprecedented scale. Bangladesh’s leaders in the public and private
sector must come together to respond to the immediate threats to health systems and the long-
term effects to the country’s economy.
The response so far is admirable, yet this pandemic also poses an economic and humanitarian
crisis. While many countries have made good starts in stimulus packages, Bangladesh has
been slower to react. The Prime Minister initially announced an emergency stimulus package of
$600 million (equivalent to 0.2% of GDP) on 25 March, which on 4 April was enhanced
significantly to $8.5 billion (equivalent to 2.5% of GDP).

Covid 19 impact Bangladeshi service industry

(Bangladesh Police Department)
The Bangladesh Police of the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a law enforcement agency,
operating under the Ministry of Home Affairs. It plays a crucial role in maintaining peace, and
enforcement of law and order within Bangladesh.
7,314 policemen have been infected with coronavirus till Saturday (18 July
2020)

Bangladesh Police have been working relentlessly, as the main frontliners under high-
risks of Covid-19 contamination.
They have been working to provide safety and service to people and to prevent the
spread of coronavirus since the beginning of the pandemic situation in the country.
Twenty four police members have died from Covid-19 infection till Saturday.
The highest number of members from a single profession has been infected with
coronavirus, said Police Headquarters Assistant Inspector General (AIG-media) Md
Sohel Rana.
According to the Police Headquarters till Saturday, 7,314 policemen have been infected
by coronavirus, where 1,934 members are from Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP).
On the other hand, 3,766 coronavirus infected policemen have recovered from Covid-19.
Many of them have even returned to duty.
AIG Sohel Rana said, Bangladesh Police are the main field leader in the coronavirus
war. For this reason, the police have to deal with many blows and retaliations first.
Nevertheless, the Bangladesh Police is moving forward with strong morale and full
vigour without giving up, he added.
Bangladesh Police has always been working for the people, he further added.
AIG Sohel said of the 24, four were inspectors, six sub-inspectors (SI), three assistant
sub-inspectors (ASI), one nayek and nine were constables.
The four inspector ranking officers were - Special Security and Protection Battalion-2’s
Inspector Golam Kibria, 56, Sirajganj District Police Sadar Court Inspector Md Fazlur
Rahman, 57, Kurigram District Police Lines Inspector Md Abdul Jalil Sardar, 55 and
DMP's Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit Inspector Raju Ahmed,
43.
Six sub-inspector (SI) ranking officer were - Special Branch (SB) SI Nazir Uddin, 55, City
SB’s SI Mojibur Rahman, 58, and SI Md Russell Biswas, 35, Sitakunda Police Station of
Chittagong district SI Md Ekramul Islam, 45, Rajshahi Range Reserve Force  (RRF)’s SI
Mosharof Hossain Sheikh, 56, and DMP's Public Order Management (POM)-West
Division SI Sultanul Arefin, 44.
Three assistant sub-inspectors (ASI) were – DMP’s POM-South division ASI Shri
Raghunath Roy, 48, ASI Abdul Khaleq, 38, and Chittagong Metropolitan Police’s ASI
Mohammad Mortuza Qayum, 48.
Deceased one Nayek and nine constables were – DMP’s MT branch Nayek Al Mamun,
43, Hazaribagh police outpost constable Md Alamgir Hossain, 54, traffic-east division
constable Md Jalal Uddin, 47, traffic-north division constable Ashek Mahmud, 42, and
Wari outpost constable Md Jasim Uddin, 40. 
The list also includes Chittagong Metropolitan Police Halishahar Police Station
Constable Nekbar Hossain, 42, Traffic Port Division Md Noimul Haque, 38, and
Constable Mamun Uddin, 27. Dinajpur Birganj Police Station Constable Md Aminul
Haque, 44, and Chittagong District Sadar Court Constable Mokhlesur Rahman, 57.
Besides that, RAB headquarters SSEE/M(P) Ali Haider Abu Enam and Nirodh Chandra,
a civil staff of Pallabi zone of DMP's Mirpur division, also died of Covid-19.
Covid 19 impact other sector
Bangladesh's ready-made garments sector accounts for around 80% of the country's
manufacturing income, with at least 4 million workers depending on it. Although the number of
COVID-19 cases is not too high in the South Asian country, the pandemic poses a great risk to
this sector and the livelihood of garment workers.

As coronavirus cases mount in Bangladesh, its government struggles to keep its front-line
healthcare workers free from getting infected, which has further strained the country's medical
facilities.
At least 251 doctors had tested positive for coronavirus by Thursday, according to
the Bangladesh Doctors Foundation (BDF), as the group blamed a lack of personal protective
equipment (PPE) and infections from patients for the outbreak among the doctors.

Nearly 200 doctors are infected in the capital, Dhaka. So far, Bangladesh has reported 3,772
confirmed COVID-19 cases, with 120 deaths.

The air connectivity between Bangladesh and outside world has drastically reduced over time
amid the COVID-19 pandemic with withdrawal of fights by operating foreign airlines and closure
of routes connecting Bangladesh by a number of countries.
Meanwhile, the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) has suspended all schedule
international flights to and from Bangladesh from 0001 BST on April 8 to 2359 on April 14. This
will mean almost total halt of air operation to and from Bangladesh.

In a circular, the CAAB said that the action has been taken “considering the persistent risk and
to avoid expansion of pandemic COVID-19 throughout the country”. It said, all scheduled
international commercial passenger flights from Bahrain, Bhutan, Hong Kong, India, Kuwait,
Malaysia, Maldives, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Thailand, Turkey, UAE, and UK
“shall not be allowed to land at any international airports of Bangladesh”.