A Short Review on the Effect of COVID-19 and Its Social Challenges in Bangladesh

The outbreak of novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) started in China on December 2019, previously known as 2019-nCoV, and has rapidly spread around 215 countries and territories in the world by June 2020. As of 8 June 2020, 215 countries, territories, and areas all over the world have a total number of COVID-19 confirmed cases of 6,881,352 and death cases of 399,895. The purpose of this short review is to shed a light on the effect of COVID-19 and its social challenges in Bangladesh. The review process involved three distinct stages: literature search, data extraction, and discussion. A series of key search terms was used in the review process. Inadequate and insufficient public awareness, difficulty maintaining social distancing, misinformation via social media platforms, various social, religious gatherings and socio-economic situation of most of the population have made it extremely challenging for the Government, authorities and the social sectors in Bangladesh to flatten the curve of COVID-19.