Gonoshasthaya Rapid Test Kit: BSMMU speaks at last, spurns it

The Gonoshasthaya Kendra-developed rapid test kit is not effective in detecting Covid-19, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University has concluded.
17 June 2020, 18:00 PM

14 areas declared as ‘red zone’ in Khulna

Fourteen areas in Khulna district have been declared “red zones” as the Covid-19 cases have seen a spike in those.
17 June 2020, 16:08 PM

Qatar Airways closes Dhaka office temporarily

Qatar Airways temporarily closed its Dhaka office from today after seeing a huge rush of ticket-buyers. The office was closed to maintain social distancing, with the airlines requesting passengers to book tickets via phone or email.
17 June 2020, 13:58 PM

Policemen’s children still await return of their fathers fallen in Covid-19 battle

“Why does my father not come to me? When will he wake up?” These are the questions three-and-half-year-old Rayed Muntasir Alif frequently asks his mother and close ones.
17 June 2020, 13:24 PM

Combating Covid-19: PM issues directives

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at a meeting discusses the Covid-19 situation in the country and issued directives to contain the pandemic.
17 June 2020, 12:13 PM

Gonoshasthaya Kendra kit not effective in Covid-19 testing: BSMMU

Prof Kanak Kanti Barua, vice chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), has said that the Gonoshasthaya Kendra-developed rapid test kit is not effective in detecting Covid-19.
17 June 2020, 10:22 AM

3 more doctors die with Covid-19

Three more doctors have died of coronavirus in Dhaka, Dinajpur and Chattogram.
17 June 2020, 09:44 AM

Covid-19: Over 4,000 new infections in a day

Forty-three people have died from coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) says.
17 June 2020, 07:40 AM

India records highest number of Covid-19 deaths in a day

In a massive spike, India reports more than 2,003 coronavirus deaths in 24 hours for the first time with Maharashtra and Delhi accounting for most of them.
17 June 2020, 07:05 AM

Beijing cuts flights to curb potential spread of mounting coronavirus cases

Scores of domestic flights in and out of Beijing are canceled as officials ramp up attempts to contain a coronavirus outbreak in the Chinese capital over the past week that sparked fears of renewed wider contagion.
17 June 2020, 05:44 AM

US doctors skeptical of reported Covid-19 breakthrough

The report of a powerful treatment for the new coronavirus brings skepticism along with optimism among US doctors, who say the recent withdrawal of an influential Covid-19 study left them wanting to see more data.
17 June 2020, 05:15 AM

100 DAYS OF COVID-19: How did we fail so miserably in handling it?

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” This comment by Vladimir Lenin, describing the Bolshevik revolution over 100 years ago, serves as an apt metaphor for the journey Bangladesh has had since March 8, when the country confirmed its first Covid-19 case.
16 June 2020, 18:00 PM

Trump seethes as FDA bans use of anti-malaria drug

The US Food and Drug Administration on Monday revoked its emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19, but quickly
16 June 2020, 18:00 PM

Gonoshasthaya Kit: BSMMU again delays test results

The submission of the report on Gonoshasthaya Kendra’s rapid test kit for Covid-19 has been postponed for the third time in a row by BSMMU officials, frustrating the scientists who developed the kit well before most other countries.
16 June 2020, 18:00 PM

Sher-e-Bangla Hospital: ICU needs ATTENTION

The shortage of trained manpower at intensive care units (ICUs) compromises proper treatment of Covid-19 patients, among others, at Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital (SBMCH) in Barishal.
16 June 2020, 18:00 PM

Doubts grow over coronavirus peak

With the country moving closer to the 100,000-mark of Covid-19 cases, healthcare experts are yet to know when the outbreak will reach its peak.
16 June 2020, 18:00 PM

Need few more days to enforce lockdowns: DSCC mayor

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh says that it would take two to three more days to enforce complete lockdown in red zone areas.
16 June 2020, 16:25 PM

CCC fires 10 physicians for not joining Covid-19 isolation centre

The Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) sacks 10 physicians because they refused to join a coronavirus isolation centre built by the city corporation at Agrabad Express Road to treat Covid-19 patients.
16 June 2020, 16:11 PM

AL MP Abdus Shahid tests positive for Covid-19

Awami League MP and former chief whip of parliament Abdus Shahid tested positive for Covid-19 today.
16 June 2020, 15:03 PM

Arranging last rites of Covid-19 victims irrespective of religion

As the Covid-19 pandemic is wreaking havoc across the world, it has also induced countless rare incidents. Whilst the virus is trying to defeat humanity, people are fighting against it -- setting examples of solidarity. The volunteers of Quantum Foundation in Pabna have set such an example.
16 June 2020, 14:29 PM