A Systematic Review of the Digital Interventions for Fighting COVID-19: The Bangladesh Perspective

Islam, Muhammad Nazrul; Islam, A. K. M. Najmul

doi:10.1109/access.2020.3002445

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“…Our study concentrates on social media users from Bangladesh in April 2020, during which the COVID-19 pandemic was causing severe restrictions and limitations on citizens' lives and mobility ( Islam and Islam, 2020 ). Bangladesh is a country in South Asia, which has a population of approximately 160 million people.…”

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Misinformation sharing and social media fatigue during COVID-19: An affordance and cognitive load perspective

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Talukder

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Technological Forecasting and Social Change

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Highlights We study social media use, fake news sharing and social media fatigue during COVID-19. Self-promotion and entertainment increase the sharing of unverified information. Exploration and religiosity correlate negatively with the sharing of unverified information. Deficient self-regulation increases both fatigue and the sharing of unverified information.

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Misinformation sharing and social media fatigue during COVID-19: An affordance and cognitive load perspective

Islam

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Talukder

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“…In Bangladesh, law enforcers have been arresting online rumor spreaders throughout the pandemic but with little success [23]. Among other governmental and voluntary initiatives to curb online misinformation, some include creating COVID-19 information hubs like National Corona Portal, corona chatbots like COVID-response Bangladesh, mobile applications like Corona Tracer BD and fact checkers like Rumor Scanner [6,24]. Despite their potential to reduce misinformation, these initiatives nevertheless struggled to effectively contain online misinformation.…”

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COVID-19-related online misinformation in Bangladesh

Al-Zaman

2021

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PurposeThis paper aims to understand the popular themes of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-related online misinformation in Bangladesh and to provide some suggestions to abate the problem.Design/methodology/approachThis paper discusses online COVID-19-related misinformation in Bangladesh. Following thematic analyses, the paper discusses some dominant misinformation themes based on the data collected from three fact-checking websites of Bangladesh run by media professionals and scholars.FindingsCOVID-19-related online misinformation in Bangladesh has six popular themes: health, political, religious, crime, entertainment and miscellaneous. To curb misinformation, many initiatives have been taken so far that have produced little success. This paper briefly proposes the implementation of an experimental two-way misinformation prevention technique for a better result.Originality/valueAcknowledging previous initiatives, this paper discusses the major themes and offers additional solutions to reduce online misinformation which would benefit academics as well as policymakers.

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“…Bangladesh is one of the densely populated countries in the world which is recognized as one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to be affected by the fast-spreading novel coronavirus 35 . Bangladesh has declared the first infected cases of COVID-19 on March 8, 2020, by its Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) through a press conference 28,36,37 . The first confirmed death of coronavirus affected patients in Bangladesh was reported on March 18, 2020 20 .…”

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“…Various vulnerabilities of this country intensify the impacts of COVID-19 and cause a multidimensional crisis 37 . The government of Bangladesh along with different private organizations has taken several measures to fight against the COVID-19 pandemic 36 . To stop the outbreak of COVID-19, the Government of Bangladesh initiatives include compulsory home quarantine, restricting the movement of the people except for crying necessity and emergency health care, local or international flight bans, social distancing, the lockdown of some severely affected areas, and so on 15 .…”

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Infection and Death Patterns of COVID-19 Disease in Bangladesh

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Objectives: This study aimed to reveal the prevalence of COVID-19 and investigate the patterns of deaths due to novel coronavirus in Bangladesh. Methods: The data about daily incidences, sex and deaths by the geography of COVID-19 for Bangladesh as of August 29, 2020 have been collected from the daily press releases of the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) and Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). Case fatality rates (CFR), doubling time, correlation coefficient and graphical presentation were used to investigate the prevalence and patterns of infection and deaths. Results: Infection to tests, recovery to infections and death to infection rates due to novel coronavirus in Bangladesh until August 29, 2020 was 20.25%, 64.37% and 1.36% respectively. The correlation coefficient between daily tests and infections has found 0.978 with a 95% confidence interval 0.971 to 0.984. About 78.46% male and only 21.54% of females have died. Most deaths were found in the Dhaka division (48.26%) and the least deaths in the Mymensingh division (2.12%). The sex ratio of males to females in deaths was 364.23%. The age below 10 has found the least prevalent (0.45%) to deaths and above 60 has found most vulnerable (49.26%) to death. Conclusions: This study showed a strong positive relationship between daily tests and infections. The doubling time of infections and deaths in Bangladesh increased over time maintaining very low differences. Male people are more vulnerable to death compare to females. Aged people are extremely vulnerable to death. The most deaths geographical division is Dhaka and the least deaths in Mymensingh.

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A Systematic Review of the Digital Interventions for Fighting COVID-19: The Bangladesh Perspective

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Cited by 55 publications

References 12 publications

Misinformation sharing and social media fatigue during COVID-19: An affordance and cognitive load perspective

Misinformation sharing and social media fatigue during COVID-19: An affordance and cognitive load perspective

COVID-19-related online misinformation in Bangladesh

Infection and Death Patterns of COVID-19 Disease in Bangladesh

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