COVID-19
UN chief calls for protecting world from recession
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has urged the international community to act immediately to protect the world from global recession.
Indian Vice President tests positive for COVID-19
The Vice President of India Venkaiah Naidu who underwent a routine COVID-19 test on Tuesday morning has tested positive.
Vaccine: Dhaka, Delhi agree ‘in principle’ to start phase-III trials in Bangladesh
Bangladesh and India have “agreed in principle" to go for the clinical trials of Covid-19 vaccines in Bangladesh soon after India launches these trials there.
‘Hide your faces behind masks’: BNP to AL leaders
Stating that the government has ‘got infected with various viruses’, BNP senior leader Nazrul Islam Khan on Tuesday suggested the ruling party leaders to ‘hide their faces behind masks to hide the shame for the widespread corruption and violence against women’.
Covid-19: Bangladesh reports 1,488 new cases, 26 deaths
Bangladesh’s confirmed coronavirus cases reached 362,043 on Tuesday after the health authorities recorded 1,488 news cases in 24 hours until Tuesday morning.
Pandemic toll is 'mind-numbing figure': UN chief
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said that the loss of 1 million people to the coronavirus is an “agonizing milestone" that has been made worse by the “savageness of this disease."
Covid-19 pandemic hitting women hard, says UN survey
Most nations are failing to provide enough social and economic protection for women since the Covid-19 pandemic, two UN agencies said on Monday, reports Xinhua.
Worldwide death toll from COVID-19 eclipses 1 million
The worldwide death toll from the coronavirus eclipsed 1 million on Tuesday, nine months into a crisis that has devastated the global economy, tested world leaders’ resolve, pitted science against politics and forced multitudes to change the way they live, learn and work.
Possible winter wave of Covid: What measures experts suggest to tackle it
As there is an apprehension that Bangladesh may witness the resurgence of Covid-19 in the coming winter, health experts say educating people, encouraging them to follow health safety rules, ensuring adequate tests and strictly quarantining visitors from abroad are key to containing it effectively.
US-Bangla resuming Dhaka-Singapore flight Oct 3
The US-Bangla Airlines has decided to operate a weekly flight on the Dhaka-Singapore-Dhaka route from October 3.