Sweden has committed 6 million Swedish kronor ($7.26 lakh) to support UN Population Agency’s efforts in strengthening the quality and availability of sexual and reproductive health services in Bangladesh during COVID-19.

Sweden has committed 6 million Swedish kronor ($7.26 lakh) to support UN Population Agency’s efforts in strengthening the quality and availability of sexual and reproductive health services in Bangladesh during COVID-19.

Forty people have died from Covid-19 during 24 hours (till 8am today), according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Eighteen dengue patients are receiving treatment at different hospitals in Dhaka until this morning as number of the mosquito-borne disease started to rise across the country.

Temporary side effects including headache, fatigue and fever are signs the immune system is revving up -- a normal response to vaccines. And they’re common.

Thirty-six people have died from Covid-19 during 24 hours (till 8am today), according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Top US infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci has urged China to release information about six labourers who fell ill after working in a mine in Yunnan province in 2012, and are now seen as a key part of efforts to find the origins of Covid-19.

President Joe Biden's Indo-Pacific policy chief said on Tuesday he was "relatively confident" a target for the production of a billion vaccine doses for the region by the end of 2022 would be met, despite the Covid-19 crisis in India, where they are due to be made.

Residents in Natore have expressed concern and discontent over district administration setting up a Covid-19 testing booth at the heart of the town.

Several studies, generally small and poorly controlled have suggested that patients with low levels of vitamin D have excess risk for infection with

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New research has shown that if people achieve and maintain substantial weight loss to manage their type 2 diabetes, many can also effectively control their high blood pressure and stop or cut down on their anti-hypertensive medication.

A nationwide study in Sweden estimates the elevated risk of advanced or fatal prostate cancer among relatives of men with the disease, providing

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43 dead, 1,447 infected

China wants to deliver second consignment of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines as part of gifts to Bangladesh by June 13.

Authorities in Satkhira today imposed a week-long lockdown in the district, following a sudden spike in Covid-19 cases. The decision has been taken to break the chain of coronavirus transmission after the positivity rate in the district was found to be 53 percent, officials said.

The European Union on Friday submitted a plan to the World Trade Organization that it believes will more effectively broaden supply of Covid-19 vaccines than the intellectual property (IP) rights waiver backed by the United States.

Serum Institute of India has got Drug Controller General of India's green signal to manufacture Russia’s Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine in the country for examination, test and analysis with certain conditions, official sources said today.

A new outbreak of Covid-19 is growing near Myanmar's northwestern border with India, bringing the sharpest increase in cases since the military coup in February led to a collapse in health services and the testing programme.