From now on, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) will collect the samples for potential Covid-19 patients. IEDCR will only be involved with the research and quality control.
Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control And Research (IEDCR) will no longer collect samples from potential Covid-19 patients.
Former chief scientific officer of IEDCR and also the adviser to the coronavirus prevention team, Dr. Mustaque Hossain, confirmed the matter to The Business Post.
The previous 17 teams will go door to door to collect samples. But they will work under the supervision of DGHS, instead of IEDCR. All the existing hotline numbers will remain operational.