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In what appears to be an astonishing revelation, a US-based scientist, who worked at a controversial research lab in China’s Wuhan, has said that COVID-19 was a “man-made virus” that leaked from the facility. Covid was leaked from Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), a state-run and funded research facility, two years ago, the New York Post reported, quoting US-based researcher ...

The over the counter sale of antibiotics will have to be stopped to resist the antimicrobial resistance in Bangladesh, experts said. They said the antimicrobial resistance has turned into alarming in the country which may affect the human health seriously here. The experts came up with the statement while addressing a seminar titled ‘Antimicrobial resistance problem; together we resist it’ ...

Lapses in strategies to tackle COVID-19 this year continue to create the perfect conditions for a deadly new variant to emerge, as parts of China witness a rise in infections, the head of the World Health Organisation said on Friday. The comments by WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus mark a change in tone just months after he said that the ...

Bangladesh reported one more Covid-linked death and 15 cases in the 24 hours to Friday morning. With the new numbers, the country’s total fatalities rose to 29,434 and caseload to 2,036,612, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). The daily case test positivity rate rose to 0.79 percent from Thursday’s 0.45 percent as 1,894 samples were tested. The ...

A weeklong special vaccination campaign against the coronavirus began today across the country, with the aim of inoculating 90 lakh people with a booster shot of the jab. According to health ministry sources, the special vaccination campaign will be held to mark the country’s great victory month. As per the plan, the vaccination campaign will continue until December 7. According ...

Bangladesh today recorded zero Covid-19 death while it reported 18 coronavirus positive cases. “Bangladesh reported 0.81 percent Covid-19 positive cases as 2,234 samples were tested during the last 24 hours,” a daily statement of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said here. In the past 24 hours, the combined figure of coronavirus infection in Dhaka district and the capital ...

National Technical Advisory Committee on COVID-19 has recommended inoculating the fourth vaccine dose to elderly persons aged above 60, frontline freedom fighters and pregnant women. Dr Shamsul Haque, member secretary of the Vaccine Deployment Committee of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), said this to media on Wednesday. He also said mass booster dose campaign will continue across the ...

Diabetes related complexities have taken a serious turn in the country as many diseases especially eye-related problems of the diabetic patients have increased here in last few years. According to the report of the International Diabetes Federation, about 1 crore and 31 lakh people are suffering from diabetes in Bangladesh. At the same time, the retinal damage is found in ...

Monkeypox is to be renamed mpox in English, the World Health Organization announced Monday, in a bid to avoid stigmatization stemming from the existing name. Monkeypox received its name because the virus was originally identified in monkeys kept for research in Denmark in 1958, but the disease is found in a number of animals, and most frequently in rodents. “Following ...

With an aim to support countries and territories to build professional competence and capacity to adequately address refugee and migrant health issues, the World Health Organization (WHO) is organising the third edition of its annual Global School on Refugee and Migrant Health in Dhaka with a focus on capacity-building. Over five days, from November 28 to December 2, policymakers, UN ...