As new pathogens emerge and old ones re-emerge due to factors like urbanization, climate change, and increased human-animal contact, recent infectious diseases such as Ebola, Mpox and Corona virus continue to pose global health challenges. Developing Countries like Bangladesh are facing tremendous difficulties and challenges to tackle the one after one outbreak of communicable diseases. In the response of worldwide emergency, Bangladesh enacted the Communicable Diseases (Prevention, Control and Elimination) Act, 2018 during COVID-19 period. It provides comprehensive guidelines for the prevention, control and eradication of communicable diseases in Bangladesh. This study is objected to analysis the core sections of this Act.

During the COVID pandemic, the act became the primary legal tool that empowered the government to take critical activities such as lockdown, quarantines and vaccination programs though there remains several criticisms regarding the actions. The present research is focused to bring out those drawbacks so that Government and policy makers can take appropriate initiatives to mitigate the gaps and limitations of the act.