Moudud Ahmmed Sujan

As black fungus infections emerge as a new threat to public health in India, health officials in Dhaka yesterday said they will soon release a guideline on preventing and treating the infection.

Nearly one million extra deaths relating to the Covid-19 pandemic occurred in 29 high-income countries in 2020, found a study led by a team of Oxford University researchers.

The restrictions to contain the spread of Covid-19 remain only on paper as there is little enforcement by government agencies to control public movement and plying of vehicles.

The country’s health sector looks ill-equipped to tackle a massive surge in Covid cases or anything close to the situation in India. Though there have been some improvements in management capacity over the last year, experts say it is far from enough.

The government will again extend the period of a project taken to set up a modern healthcare facility at the capital Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) after the project authorities failed to complete the work on schedule mainly due to the pandemic.

Amid fears of a further surge in Covid-19 infections, the government plans to segregate the big cities with higher transmission rate from the rest of the country and extend the nationwide restrictions with stricter surveillance.

Treatment cost for Covid-19 patients is abnormally higher at private hospitals than at public healthcare facilities, revealed a study.

The positivity rate of Covid-19 tests in the country has come down below 10 percent after 40 days.

The daily Covid cases may double after the third week of next month if the ongoing Covid-19 restrictions are relaxed or withdrawn, a team of researchers has forecasted, based on epidemiological projection modelling.

The newly-launched DNCC Covid-19 hospital in Dhaka has been struggling with the rising number of patients due to shortage of skilled manpower and other facilities.

After the recommendation of the health directorate, the government yesterday shut down the border with India from today amid tensions over huge surge in Covid-19 cases in the neighbouring country.

Experts have again warned against the wholesale lifting of the coronavirus restrictions as the government plans to withdraw the travel restrictions from Wednesday.

At the beginning, there were only the three of us in the Covid-19 testing team, but sir always said we could do the highest number of tests. Despite underlying health condition, he forcefully stayed in the lab from early morning all the way up to 12pm.

Scientists have identified another new variant of novel coronavirus in the country with potentially worrying mutations.

With the number of new cases and the daily positivity rate sliding, experts said the novel coronavirus transmission has started to slow down due to the ongoing restrictions on movement.

While the transmission of the novel coronavirus has turned almost the entire country into a high-risk zone, the number of daily tests has been decreasing resulting in many people carrying the virus undetected – ultimately infecting others around them.

The number of adults suffering from depression and anxiety has increased in the country during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a study by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).

The rising coronavirus cases between April 6 and 13 have turned 54 districts of the country into high-risk zones.

Doctors have observed symptoms like severe fatigue, muscle pain, loss of appetite, diarrhoea, sleeplessness, and conjunctivitis in a large number of Covid-19 patients requiring medical treatment.

Health officials reported 78 deaths from Covid-19 yesterday, the highest in a day since the first three cases of coronavirus were detected last year.