International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health | May 2021 | Vol 8 | Issue 5 Page 2116 International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health Sohidullah M et al. Int J Community Med Public Health. 2021 May;8(5):2116-2123 http://www.ijcmph.com pISSN 2394-6032 | eISSN 2394-6040 Original Research Article Prevalence and death rate of COVID-19 in some selected countries and its socio-economic impacts in Khulna division of Bangladesh M. Sohidullah 1 *, Shahidur R. Khan 2 , Ashiqul Alam 1 , Nahid Rahman 1 , Swarup K. Kundu 3 , Arifur Rahman 4 INTRODUCTION The novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) is a highly contagious disease which has not been previously identified in humans. It is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) belonging to the genus β-corona virus and family Coronaviridae. SARS-CoV-2 is an enveloped, single- stranded positive-sense RNA virus with genome size of 22-32 kb in length. 1 Incubation period of this disease varies from 1-14 days. 2 Case fatality rate of the 2019- nCoV is 3.5% or around 2%. People of all ages can be infected by the SARS-CoV-2. Older people, and people with pre-existing medical conditions like asthma, diabetes, heart disease appear to be more vulnerable to COVID-19. The most commonly reported clinical symptoms are fever, dry cough, headache, dyspnea, myalgia, respiratory distress, renal impairment, diarrhea, ABSTRACT Background: 2019-nCoV has been declared by WHO as a global pandemic in March 2020. The present study was undertaken to find out the global as well as local prevalence, and death rate of COVID-19. Methods: A developed questionnaire was used in Khulna division of Bangladesh to record the percentages of people who were mask user, involved with different risk groups, harmed by socio-economic impacts of COVID-19, involved with the issue of government taking measures for controlling COVID-19. Some of the highly risk countries of the world were selected for recording the data. Results: As of October 20, 2020, we found USA, and Bangladesh at 1st and 17th position respectively in terms of global prevalence of COVID-19. We found Dhaka at 1 st position in terms of division wise prevalence in Bangladesh. In terms of death rate of COVID-19, Mexico reported 10.10% death rate by securing 1 st position. We recorded the data related with percentages of people who were involved with mask using and risk groups like hypertension, diabetes, respiratory illness, smoking; harmed by socio-economic impacts of COVID-19 that changed their lives, believers of different levels on government taking measures for controlling the spread of COVID-19 from Khulna division. Conclusions: The findings of this research work would certainly help the government of highly risk countries as well as Bangladesh to take appropriate measures to control COVID-19. Moreover, it will be helpful for the government of Bangladesh to take necessary steps to mitigate the socio-economic crises existing among the people. Keywords: COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, WHO, Pandemic, Prevalence, Death rate 1 Department of Microbiology and Public Health, Khulna Agricultural University, Khulna, Bangladesh 2 Department of Microbiology and Hygiene, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, Bangladesh 3 Department of Anatomy and Histology, Khulna Agricultural University, Khulna, Bangladesh 4 Department of Agricultural Chemistry, Khulna Agricultural University, Khulna, Bangladesh Received: 06 February 2021 Revised: 08 March 2021 Accepted: 09 March 2021 *Correspondence: Dr. M. Sohidullah, E-mail: sohidullah@kau.edu.bd Copyright: © the author(s), publisher and licensee Medip Academy. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20211727