COVID-19
Theatre artists set to get enlisted for COVID-19 vaccination programme
Bangladesh Group Theatre Federation (BGTF) has announced that it is preparing a list of theatre artists for the COVID-19 vaccination programme.
25 UK returnees test Covid negative after retest in 24 hrs
Twenty-five Bangladeshis who arrived in Sylhet from the UK five days back now tested negative for Covid-19, just a day after they came out to be positive.
Voting in Chattogram City Corporation election begins
Voting in the Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) election, which was postponed 10 months ago due to Covid-19 pandemic, began on Wednesday in a peaceful manner.
US boosting vaccine deliveries amid complaints of shortages
Answering growing frustration over vaccine shortages, President Joe Biden announced Tuesday that the U.S. is ramping up deliveries to hard-pressed states over the next three weeks and expects to provide enough doses to vaccinate 300 million Americans by the end of the summer or early fall.
UN forecasts 4.7% global economic growth in 2021
The United Nations warned Monday that the world economy is “on a cliffhanger,” still reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic whose impact will be felt for years but still expected to make a modest recovery of 4.7% in 2021 which would barely offset 2020 losses.
UN chief: World faces 'existential threats,' fragilities
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned global leaders Monday that the world is not only facing a COVID-19 emergency and the worst economic crisis in nearly a century, but also “existential threats" to the climate and biodiversity — and the possibility of the largest economies, the United States and China, splitting the world in two.
Divisiveness, politicisation of pandemic in US is key lesson to learn: Fauci
Top US immunologist said on Monday that in the US, one of the key lessons from the current COVID-19 outbreak is the challenges of the divisiveness and politicization of the health crisis.
White House to resume public COVID-19 briefings
White House press secretary Jen Psaki says the Biden administration will provide public briefings on the coronavirus pandemic starting Wednesday.
28 expats from UK test positive for Covid-19
Twenty-eight Bangladeshis, who arrived in Sylhet from the UK four days ago, have tested positive for coronavirus.
China pushes fringe theories on pandemic origins, virus
Chinese state media have played up questions about Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine and whether it could be lethal to the very old. A government spokesperson suggests the coronavirus could have emerged from a U.S. military lab.