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 ...

The price of soybean oil has decreased in the retail market of the country. This information was learnt from an emergency instruction of the Ministry of Commerce on Thursday. The revised price will be effective from December 18. According to the latest prices of soybean oil, the government has decided to decrease Tk 5 for one litre, Tk 19 for ...

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 ...

The dip in the overall rate of inflation in the year to November should be the start of a few months of falls. October’s four-decade high now looks to have been the peak. But inflation will remain very high for months to come. Even talk of a moderation in the rate of price rises seems out of kilter with everyday ...

Former British prime minister Boris Johnson has already earned more than £1 million ($1.2 million) for giving paid speeches since leaving office in September, according to an official register of UK parliamentarians’ interests. Famous for his rhetorical flourishes, Johnson has in recent months delivered speeches to bankers in New York, insurers in the United States, a summit organised by broadcaster ...

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 ...

The government has fixed a target to increase the money supply to 16.5 per cent from the existing 15.6 per cent in the next two fiscals, reports UNB. As per a government document, in the 2022-23 fiscal the rate of money supply is at 15.6 per cent. For the next 2023-24 fiscal the government has projected to increase the rate ...

Moderna’s stock soared Tuesday after the COVID-19 vaccine maker detailed progress in developing a preventive shot for a deadly form of skin cancer. The company said a possible melanoma vaccine it is studying with pharmaceutical giant Merck fared well in a small study of patients who had the cancer surgically removed. The drugmakers said a combination of the vaccine and ...

British Minister for Indo-Pacific Anne-Marie Trevelyan has said the UK looks forward to continuing to strengthen their bilateral ties with Bangladesh through trade, investment, and people-to-people links. The British Minister said this during a bilateral meeting with Private Industry and Investment Adviser to Prime Minister Salman F Rahman in London on Monday, reports UNB. Praising Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s generous ...