Why we are more vulnerable

We are extremely lucky that the number of people infected with the coronavirus has not climbed up massively in Bangladesh. Dhaka has all the worst characteristics for a city trying to battle a pandemic. It is overcrowded, badly managed and unclean.

This should serve as a lesson to those entrusted to manage the country, that continuing to develop Bangladesh and its major cities in the current, unsustainable manner, has its consequences.

Quamrul Hasan, Dhaka