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Sustainable Development Goals: What to salvage from Covid-19

Once the Covid-19 pandemic is under control, and the world economy is back on its tracks, the status and fate of the 2030 Agenda, also known as Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), needs to be reassessed.
19 May 2020

Facebook-based initiative benefits general patients during Covid-19 shutdown

A team of doctors under the banner of “Patuakhalibasir Daktar” (Doctors for the People of Patuakhali) are providing telemedicine services to the people of the district, facilitating treatment for general patients during the adverse situation amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
19 May 2020

Shops, markets closed indefinitely again

The district administration on Monday again shut down all shops and markets in Pabna for an indefinite period after finding gross violations of safe physical distancing and health safety measures that it made prerequisites for reopening the shops and markets on May 10.
19 May 2020

CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC: updates

The novel coronavirus has killed at least 318,517 people so far, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 1100 GMT yesterday.
19 May 2020

New drug can stop pandemic

A Chinese laboratory has been developing a drug it believes has the power to bring the coronavirus pandemic to a halt.
19 May 2020

Burden now HEAVIER

As the lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus continues to have an impact on people from all walks of life, a generation of working women is learning that their “work-from-home” is not quite the same as that of men.
19 May 2020

Tobacco users, smokers at higher risk

The risk of smokers contracting Covid-19 is two times higher than non-smokers, said Prof Dr Nasima Sultana, additional director general (administration) of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
19 May 2020

Covid-19: Battle can be won if all hands are on deck

Let’s talk about the young people fighting on the frontlines of the Covid-19 outbreak.
19 May 2020

145 more police personnel win battle against Covid-19

At least 145 more police personnel have won the battle against Covid-19 and left hospital today.
19 May 2020

WHO states agree to independent probe of coronavirus response

World Health Organization member states agreed Tuesday to an independent probe into the UN agency's coronavirus response as US criticism mounted over its handling of the pandemic.
19 May 2020

Plan for bankruptcy court-led restructuring of Thai Airways approved

Thailand’s cabinet approved a plan to restructure troubled Thai Airways International Pcl’s (THAI.BK) finances through a bankruptcy court, the Southeast Asian country’s prime minister says.
19 May 2020

Highest number of recoveries in a day; 21 dead, 1,251 infected: DGHS

Twenty-one people have died with coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) says.
19 May 2020

India coronavirus cases cross 100k mark

The total number of coronavirus patients across India crosses the one lakh mark with 4,970 more cases in the last 24 hours, according to health ministry data.
19 May 2020

Trump says he is taking hydroxychloroquine despite FDA warning

US President Donald Trump, in a surprise announcement, says he is taking hydroxychloroquine as a preventive medicine against the coronavirus despite medical warnings about the use of the malaria drug.
19 May 2020

Trump threatens permanent freeze on WHO funding in 30 days

President Donald Trump threatens to permanently freeze US funding to the World Health Organization unless "substantive improvements" are made within the next 30 days.
19 May 2020

Thousands of Bangladeshis set to return to the country

An extremely crucial time lies ahead to contain the Covid-19 pandemic, as roughly 29,000 Bangladeshis are set to return to the country over the next couple of weeks from the Middle East.
18 May 2020

Cyclone Amphan during the pandemic

The evacuation of thousands of people in response to the warning of cyclone Amphan hitting Bangladesh’s coastal districts is no doubt a huge
18 May 2020

Scientists, health officials in dark

Health officials in the country are making predictions about the coronavirus outbreak based mostly on assumptions, not scientific analyses, experts said.
18 May 2020

Cops grapple with Covid-19

The numbers of Covid-19 infection in Bangladesh Police, Bangladesh Ansar and Village Defence Party are rising sharply on a daily basis.
18 May 2020

Virus deaths surge, new cases too

The country yesterday saw the highest number of deaths from the novel coronavirus -- 21 in a single day -- with a record 1,602 positive cases.
18 May 2020