Kindergarten Teachers in Rangpur: Pandemic made them drivers, vendors

Rendered unemployed by the pandemic, many kindergarten teachers in Rangpur and its nearby districts had to become daily wage earners for survival.
3 August 2021, 18:00 PM

2 doctors die from Covid-19

A gynaecological consultant in Tangail and a medical staffer in Dinajpur died of Covid-19.
3 August 2021, 18:00 PM

AstraZeneca Jabs: Japan sends 6.16 lakh more

Japan supplied over 6.16 lakh shots of the AstraZeneca vaccine to Bangladesh yesterday. With this, 16.43 lakh doses of the Covid-19 vaccine arrived from Japan so far.
3 August 2021, 18:00 PM

Vaccination of Rohingyas begins on August 10

The government will begin vaccinating around 66,000 Rohingya refugees living in the camps of Cox’s Bazar from August 10.
3 August 2021, 18:00 PM

Beacon pharmaceuticals to provide free Covid-19 drugs to nurses, midwives of govt hospitals

Nurses and midwives are among the largest group of people providing dedicated healthcare to people in this Covid-19 pandemic.
3 August 2021, 14:49 PM

Japan’s 3rd consignment of vaccine: Over 6 lakh doses of AstraZeneca reach Dhaka

Japan’s supply of 616,780 more doses of AstraZeneca vaccines has reached the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport today.
3 August 2021, 13:35 PM

Govt considering treating patients with mild Covid cases in hotels: health minister

The government is considering treating Covid-19 patients with mild symptoms at hotels, as hospitals throughout the country have been stretched to their limits, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said today.
3 August 2021, 12:55 PM

Won't get salary after Aug 31 if not vaccinated by 16: AG's office staff told

Attorney General (AG) AM Amin Uddin has directed all officers and staff members at his office to receive Covid-19 vaccine by August 16, and said that those who will not get vaccinated by the deadline will not get salaries after August 31.
3 August 2021, 12:30 PM

235 Covid-19 deaths, 15,776 cases recorded in 24 hours

Two hundred and thirty-five people died from Covid-19 in 24 hours till 8am today, said a press release of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
3 August 2021, 11:57 AM

264 dengue patients hospitalised in 24 hours

At least 264 people with dengue fever were admitted to different hospitals across the country during 24 hours till 8am today.
3 August 2021, 10:37 AM

Ongoing lockdown extended till Aug 10; markets will reopen on Aug 11

The ongoing nationwide lockdown has been extended till August 10, considering the current Covid-19 pandemic situation.
3 August 2021, 08:47 AM

BMRC ethically permits human trials of Bharat Biotech's vaccine in Bangladesh

Covaxin, the Covid-19 vaccine made by India's Bharat Biotech, got ethical permission to conduct human trial in Bangladesh.
3 August 2021, 08:16 AM

China orders mass testing in Wuhan as COVID outbreak spreads

Chinese authorities announced Tuesday mass coronavirus testing in Wuhan as an unusually wide series of COVID-19 outbreaks reached the city where the disease was first detected in late 2019.
3 August 2021, 08:12 AM

19 patients die at RMCH’s Covid unit in 24 hours

Nineteen people – 10 female and nine male -- died at the Covid unit of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) in 24 hours till 8am today.
3 August 2021, 05:50 AM

Doctors study whether Delta Covid-19 variant makes patients sicker

With a new wave of Covid-19 infections fueled by the Delta variant striking countries worldwide, disease experts are scrambling to learn whether the latest version of coronavirus is making people - mainly the unvaccinated - sicker than before.
3 August 2021, 02:12 AM

No vaccine crisis in country: Quader

Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday said the government has enough Covid-19 vaccine in hand now to start a nationwide mass inoculation from next Saturday.
2 August 2021, 18:00 PM

Delta on the rampage

About 44 percent of the Covid deaths and around 40 percent of the infections so far were recorded in less than three months after the detection of the Delta variant in the country on May 8, shows the health directorate data.
2 August 2021, 18:00 PM

Dengue Treatment: Hard to get amid Covid wave

Dengue patients have been struggling to find treatment at the public hospitals in the capital as the major facilities are burdened with Covid-19 patients.
2 August 2021, 18:00 PM

Irregularities widespread in 3 hospitals

The health directorate inspected three hospitals in the capital’s Uttara and found widespread irregularities, including treating Covid-19 patients without permission and that too with insufficient equipment and shortage of trained doctors and nurses.
2 August 2021, 18:00 PM

Muhith still has breathing difficulties

Former finance minister AMA Muhith has breathing problems, seven days after being diagnosed with Covid-19.
2 August 2021, 18:00 PM