Mohammad Al-Masum Molla

After a day of heat at Bhasan Char yesterday, the winds began to pick up towards the evening and there was some rain.

Patients are deprived of an intensive care unit at the National Institute of Ear, Nose and Throat as the authorities have failed to make it functional over the years due to the dearth of necessary workforce.

The Bangladesh government has signed a non-disclosure agreement with its Chinese counterpart on purchasing Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine and producing it here.

With the stock of Covid-19 vaccine depleting fast, the government’s mass inoculation programme might soon come to a screeching halt.

With the guard against Covid-19 lowered, health officials and experts fear that the country is heading towards a grimmer health crisis.

An uncharacteristically indelicate exchange regarding a four-country alliance called “the Quad”, which includes India and the US, seems to have heated up the otherwise smooth Dhaka-Beijing diplomatic relations.

Those returning to the country from India will be released from institutional quarantine only upon completing the 14-day quarantine period and testing negative for Covid-19.

The recent arrival of the double mutant Indian Covid-19 variant in Bangladesh is due to the lack of strict enforcement of institutional quarantine for those returning from India.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia tested negative for Covid-19 last night and her condition improved slightly.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s doctors said she can be taken abroad once she becomes consistently stable.

Russia has offered Bangladesh the Sputnik V vaccine at a rate of $9.95 for each dose.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s health might not be stable enough for a long flight, her doctors said as her family members want to take her abroad for better treatment.

The stock of Oxford-AstraZeneca doses is running out fast but the government, despite frantic efforts to keep the inoculation campaign on track, is yet to secure a contract for bulk supply of alternative Covid-19 vaccines.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s family has sought permission from the government to take her abroad for better treatment.

The government has made considerable progress in procuring Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine with health officials now working on finalising a government-to-government contract.

As the demand for oxygen increased at hospitals amid this second wave of the pandemic, a group of Buet researchers has developed a low-cost portable ventilator that can deliver oxygen to patients efficiently without electricity.

Serum Institute of India has been in talks with Beximco about producing the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh will receive over five lakh doses of China’s Sinopharm vaccine on May 10 if everything goes as planned.

Muhammad Asaduzzaman, a doctor treating Covid-19 patients, has nightmares that people are gasping for air and pleading to be saved.

In a desperate attempt to keep the mass vaccination campaign on track, the government yesterday gave emergency use authorisation to Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine.