The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic brought unprecedented risk to public health worldwide. While the world struggles to cope with this crisis time, the Dengue outbreak has threatened the South Asia and Latin America regions. With the monsoon in South Asia, dengue is prone, emerging as a deadly combination to manage in developing countries such as Bangladesh, with vulnerable health systems and highly dense populations. The country observes a sharp rise in dengue cases, placing additional burdens on the health-care system, already battered by the COVID-19 crisis. Bangladesh has passed 17 mo of infection without reaching zero cases since the first case was reported on March 8, 2020. It is now undergoing a catastrophic second wave of the pandemic, primarily due to the Delta variant. As a border country with India, Bangladesh was in an alarming situation because of the spreading of the Delta variant. Despite precautions, Bangladesh detected its first case due to the Delta variant in a patient returning from India on May 8, 2021. A study conducted between June 29 and July 30, 2021, in Dhaka, reported that 98 of detected COVID-19 cases were infected with the Delta variant in Bangladesh.5 Since the emergence of the Delta variant, cases in Bangladesh grew drastically.4 On July 28,2021, the highest ever case count reached 16,230. As of August 22,2021, more than 1.4 million confirmed cases and 25,282 deaths and ranked 2nd in the South Asia region were reached.
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