IEDCR

Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control And Research
Infant Mariam with her mother at the icddr,b hospital on 3 April, 2022

Diarrhoea outbreak: 450,000 patients in three months

More than 450,000 people all over the country have been diagnosed with diarrhoea

A health worker in a Dhaka hospital sorts test tubes with samples for testing novel coronavirus infection

Covid-19 Infections rising due to delta variant: IEDCR Director

Bangladesh recorded first cases of Omicron variant in December. The newer variant has become a matter of global concern

Three more Omicron cases detected in Dhaka

Three more Omicron cases detected in Dhaka

Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control And Research analysed their samples and sent them to GISAID

Scene from a street in Khulna where no one is bothered about masks and other health guidelines despite an alarming increase in the spread of Covid-19

Covid- 19: Still not the time to feel relief

There is some relief among the people due to the reduction in the patient identification rate and casualties at recent times. On the other hand, there is also fear among many that the situation might ...

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835 dengue cases in 18 days

April to October is generally seen as the dengue season, but the four months from June to September is peak season

Nur-e-Alam, who had been suffering from fever for four days, was admitted to coronavirus ward of Pabna General Hospital on 4 July, 2021

Covid-19 Crisis of oxygen feared as patients on the rise

The demand of oxygen has multiplied several times for the treatment of the Covid patients. Although there is no oxygen crisis at the moment, there are flaws in the oxygen management

Shahina Begum from Krishnapur village of Rajshahi’s Tanore upazila is admitted to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital on 20 June 2021 after she suffered from a fever for seven days. The picture was taken on 24 June 2021.

Covid-19: Three variants spreading rapidly

The World Health Organization (WHO) said several countries including Bangladesh have been recording increased infections and deaths of Covid-19 despite a decreasing trend in both new cases and new ...

A woman receives oxygen sitting on the floor after hospital bed falls short due to growing number of Covid-19 patients at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital on 22 June 2021.

Covid-19 Situation may deteriorate further ahead of Eid: Experts

Amid the rise in Covid cases triggered by local transmission of the Delta variant, experts predict that Bangladesh may see the peak of the current wave of the deadly virus in the third week of July ...

Free distribution of 13m masks in 35 high-risk districts begins

Community resilience against Covid-19 Free distribution of 13m masks in 35 high-risk districts begins

BRAC has teamed up with a group of partners to undertake an initiative to build community resilience against Covid-19 in Bangladesh

An attendant is seen next to a patient who recovered from the Covid-19 coronavirus and now infected with Black Fungus, a deadly fungal infection at the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Medical College in Jabalpur on 21 May, 2021

Two black fungus cases detected in Bangladesh

Two patients with mucormycosis widely known as black fungus have been detected at a hospital in the capital, said professor Tahmina Shirin, director of the government's Institute of Epidemiology, ...

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Bangladesh detects Indian coronavirus variant: IEDCR

Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control And Research (IEDCR) has detected an Indian Covid variant.

People throng to the market defying the health guidelines of weeklong lockdown imposed by government to curb the rising trend of Covid-19 infection. The picture was taken from Barobazar of Jashore.

'Bangladesh needs to engage community to fight Covid-19 surge'

Bangladesh needs community engagement, coordination among the authorities concerned to lower the surge of coronavirus infection

People wait in a queue for coronavirus tests at Mugda General Hospital

Covid-19: Another peak ahead

During June-July of 2020, Bangladesh witnessed a peak season of the coronavirus infection. Particularly the period between the mid-June and mid-July saw three to four thousand infected patients every ...

People are not wearing masks despite the risk of contracting coronavirus. The photo was taken at the new market in the capital on 19 March, 2021

Covid-19: Three reasons why transmission is increasing

Scientists and researchers believe there are three main reasons behind the rise in the coronavirus transmission rate

Insecticide being sprayed to destroy adult mosquitos in the daytime as part of Dhaka North City Corporation's drive to bring Culex mosquitoes under control. Culex mosquitoes, however, stay within bushes and shrubbery at this time. This picture was taken on Monday in Mirpur's Shagufta canal area

Now Spanish insecticide to kill Dhaka mosquitos

Dhaka North City Corporation is going to import larvicide and adulticide from Spanish pharmaceutical company Zotal Laborarorios to tackle the mosquito menace

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