Dhaka, May 28 -- On May 24, the Health Ministry ordered all public and private hospitals, clinics and diagnostic centres to provide treatment to both coronavirus and non-COVID patients in separate units of the same facility.

Prof Nazrul Islam, former vice-chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, lauded the government's decision, which he believes will ease the plight of patients battling other conditions whose treatment has been hampered by the coronavirus outbreak in the country.

Experts have recommended creating three separate zones -- a red zone for COVID-19 patients, a yellow zone for suspected virus patients and a green zone for general patients - in a hospital to ensure safe distancing between infected patients a...