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The head of the World Health Organization said the agency is “very concerned” about rising reports of severe coronavirus disease across China after the country largely abandoned its “zero COVID” policy, warning that its lagging vaccination rate could result in large numbers of vulnerable people getting infected. At a press briefing on Wednesday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the ...

India’s federal government has asked its states to increase genome sequencing of positive samples amid a rise in COVID-19 cases in different countries, officials said Wednesday, reports Xinhua. “It’s essential to gear up whole genome sequencing of positive case samples to track variants through Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG) network,” read a letter issued by India’s federal health ministry to ...

A special campaign for administering the fourth COVID vaccine dose started on Tuesday across the country. Ahmedul Kabir, director general of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS, launched the campaign at Kurmitola general Hospital in the capital at 9am. Only Pfizer vaccine will be used in the campaign. People aged above 60, who already received their third dose, will ...

Bangladesh reported 20 more Covid cases in 24 hours till Monday morning. With the new numbers, the country’s total caseload rose to 2,036,948, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). However, the official death toll from the disease remained unchanged at 29,437 as no new fatalities were reported. The daily case test positivity rose to 0.85 percent from ...

Bangladesh on Sunday recorded zero Covid-19 death while it reported 17 coronavirus positive cases. “Bangladesh reported 0.65 percent Covid-19 positive cases as 2,612 samples were tested during the last 24 hours,” a daily statement of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said here. During the period, the combined figure of coronavirus infection in Dhaka district and the capital is ...

Outside a funeral home in eastern Beijing, dozens of people were bundled up in parkas and hats against the freezing temperatures Friday evening as workers in full protective suits wheeled out coffins one by one. When an employee with a clipboard shouted the name of the dead, a relative trundled up to the coffin to examine the body. One of ...

China’s abrupt lifting of stringent COVID-19 restrictions could result in an explosion of cases and over a million deaths through 2023, according to new projections from the US-based Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). According to the group’s projections, cases in China would peak around April 1, when deaths would reach 322,000. About a third of China’s population will ...

Secretary of State for Health and Social Care of the United Kingdom (UK) Steve Barclay has expressed interest to take trained nurses from Bangladesh. Steve Barclay expressed his keenness at a meeting with Prime Minister’s Private Sector Industry and Investment Adviser Salman F Rahman in London on Monday, according to a press release received here today. In the meeting, Steve ...

When Debora Zilz rushed her baby son Andreas to a Berlin hospital because of a serious respiratory illness, she got a shock. “There was no space,” she recalled. Medics desperately rang other hospitals in the German capital and neighbouring Brandenburg state in an effort to find a bed for the 13-day-old. “Finally, after a night in the accident and emergency ...

World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday he is “hopeful” that the COVID-19 pandemic will no longer be considered a global emergency some time next year. His comments at a briefing with media come as China dismantles its rigid “zero-COVID” policy and allows people to live with the virus, stirring concerns the world’s No.2 economy faces a ...