Deadly Flood and Landslides amid COVID-19 Crisis: A Public Health Concern for the World's Largest Refugee Camp in Bangladesh

Abstract

Since the beginning of 2020, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARSCoV-2)/coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic brought unprecedented risk to global public health and devastated the global health system. In the absence of an available vaccine, the world has already witnessed multiple waves of this pandemic. Since the first case was recorded there on March 8, 2020, Bangladesh has endured eighteen months of infection without reaching zero cases. The country is now experiencing a devastating second wave of the pandemic, caused mainly by the coronavirus Delta strain, which was first identified in Bangladesh on May 8, 2021 through a traveler from India.2 Additionally, Hasan reported that the Delta variant caused 98% of detected COVID-19 cases during the second wave of the pandemic in Bangladesh...