[3] Experts feared that the situation would deteriorate as a lot of people traveled from major cities to rural areas to celebrate Eid al-Adha holidays in August.

[5] The Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) expects the outbreak to continue till September 2019.

[6] The Communicable Disease Control (CDC) unit of DGHS warned about the outbreak in March 2019.

Based on outcome of the survey, they alerted both city corporations about the possibility of an outbreak in upcoming months.

As said by the CDC director Dr. Sanya Tahmina, they also started training the doctors and nurses from February considering the possibility of a future outbreak.