Young people now infected more with Covid-19: Health DG

Dr Abul Bashar Mohammad Khurshid Alam, director general of the Directorate General of Health Services, today said most of the new Covid-19 infected patients are young while maximum patients are needing ICU support.

"With the earlier variant, we have seen that mostly patients with comorbidity contracted Covid-19 but now we are witnessing that young and healthy people are being infected," the health DG said while attending a programme at 250-bed TB Hospital at Shyamoly in Dhaka.

The health DG said he did not get any request for ICU beds in the last two months for Covid-19 patients but over the last few days, he received numerous calls -- alleging shortage of ICU beds at hospitals.

"Be ready… Prepare all the ICU beds that you have for Covid-19 patients," he asked the TB hospital authority.

He informed that they have already met with all the divisional health directors of the country and directors of Dhaka's designated Covid-19 hospitals and heard their problems and eventually addressed those.