Pandemic

Battery-run rickshaw, van, easy bike are seized and dumped in Bata Gate area in Gazipur by the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway

Questions Bangladeshi media doesn't ask about easy bikes

Nearly 6,000 seized motorised rickshaws and easy bikes have been seized and kept at Bata Gate and the T&T ground in Gazipur. That means, drivers of 6,000 engine-run rickshaws, vans and easy bikes ...

People from lower income group line up to purchase essential commodities from TCB. The picture was taken from Garpara in Manikganj

Project to make list of poor Huge expense, ‘extreme negligence’

Without even completing the list of the poor people, the Statistics and Informatics Division under the planning ministry is going to finish a related project. The initiative to make a list of the ...

Two Chinese people wearing masks on their way to office

End of Covid pandemic is near: WHO

The world has never been in a better position to end the Covid-19 pandemic, the head of the WHO said on Wednesday, his most optimistic outlook yet on the years-long health crisis which has killed ...

A couple walk past closed shops in a quiet lane in central Sheffield, in northern England on 21 October 2020, prior to further lockdown measures to combat the rise in novel coronavirus COVID-19 cases. More than a million people in northern England will be banned from mixing with other households under tougher new coronavirus rules announced by government minister Robert Jenrick on Wednesday

Global Covid cases top 610 million

The overall number of global Covid cases has surged past 610 million amid a rise in new infections in parts of the world

Children queue for a free meal during a feeding program by outreach group World Mission Community Care, at a slum area in the Baseco compound, metro Manila on 30 July, 2014.

Pandemic sets back Asia-Pacific's poverty fight by 2 yrs: ADB

Extreme poverty is expected to drop below 1 per cent of the population by 2030

A man receives a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19, at a vaccination center at Paseo de la Sexta, in Guatemala City, on 25 February, 2022

Global Covid cases near 589 million

According to the latest global data, the total case count mounted to 588,866,875 and the death toll reached 6,435,704 on Sunday morning

World Health Organization headquarters

WHO triggers highest alert on monkeypox

“I have decided that the global #monkeypox outbreak represents a public health emergency of international concern,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference.

Medical workers in protective suits collect swabs for nucleic acid tests during a city-wide testing following new coronavirus disease (Covid-19) cases in Qingdao, Shandong province, China 12 October 2020

Global Covid cases near 571 million

The overall number of Covid cases is now nearing 571 million amid a rise in new infections in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Europe

Medical workers administer tests at the Bondi Beach drive-through coronavirus disease (Covid-19) testing centre in the wake of new positive cases in Sydney, Australia on 17 June 2021.

Global Covid cases top 562 million

The overall number of Covid cases has now surpassed 562 million amid a rise in new infections in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Europe

People line up to be tested for the COVID-19 coronavirus in Beijing on 22 January, 2021, part of a drive to test two million people in 48 hours as the city rushes to snuff out a new local cluster of cases believed to be linked to a more contagious virus variant

Global Covid cases top 561 million

The overall number of Covid cases has now surpassed 561 million amid a rise in new infections in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Europe

A man reacts before the body of his father, a ward master at Suhrawardy Hospital in Dhaka, who died under treatment at the hospital after showing coronavirus symptoms. The deceased was Covid-19 positive in the test report received after death.

Coronavirus: 32 died in five days

The country is seeing deaths from coronavirus every day now. Seven people died on Tuesday. The number was 12 a day before on Monday

Sample for testing Covid-19 is collected from a person at Shaheed Suhrawardy Hospital in Dhaka as the country has been seeing a sharp rise of infection for weeks. The picture was taken on 28 June.

Coronavirus transmission on rise, fewer hospital admissions

Some 15 among every 100 with symptoms like fever, cough, aches are being diagnosed with coronavirus. Despite that, many are ignoring these symptoms and the number of sample testing is still low

Precautions against corona

Precautions against corona

Corona outbreak in the country is yet again on the rise. The need for health awareness against coronavirus is still there

People sit as they come to a coronavirus testing center in the Mugda Medical College and Hospital as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak continues in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2 July 2020

Covid: Bangladesh logs 3 more deaths with 1,280 cases

Bangladesh reported three more Covid-linked deaths with 1,280 new infections in 24 hours till Saturday morning

Be-Nazir Ahmed

Bangladesh enters fourth wave of coronavirus

With the detection of a new variant of the coronavirus and rise in the daily cases, the fear of the fourth wave of the pandemic is looming large

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