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Counterfeit drugs flood market
Public health at serious risk Golam Mostafa Jibon: Despite several drives of the law enforcers, fake and adulterated drugs have flooded the markets during the corona pandemic putting the public health at serious risk instead of saving lives.In the wholesale and retail market, adulterated medicines are being sold by copying…
Read More »Dhaka, Beijing sign deal
Co-production of Vaccine Staff Correspondent: In a major development towards vaccine cooperation, Dhaka and Beijing formally signed a deal yesterday for co-producing Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine in Bangladesh.Bangladesh signed the tripartite agreement with Chinese company Sinopharm and local drug manufacturer Incepta Pharmaceuticals at Bangladesh College of Physicians and Surgeons (BCPS) Auditorium,…
Read More »BD on course to exceed 6-day vaccine target
More people line up for shots Staff Correspondent: Officials say that many people have been turned away from COVID vaccination centres on the second day of a mass inoculation drive because the numbers queuing to take the shots greatly exceeded the allocation of daily doses. Vaccines were administered at the…
Read More »Overflowing crowds in vaccination centers
2nd day of mass-inoculation Staff Correspondent:the second day of the government-announced mass inoculation campaign to curb the pandemic coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak, huge crowds of people were observed in different centers of the capital. Although the vaccination campaign started in the morning, men and women over the age of 25 have…
Read More »Mega Covid inoculation drive begins in BD
Govt aims to inoculate 35 lakh people Staff Correspondent: As the ruthless Delta variant of Covid-19 keeps spreading like wildfire, Bangladesh yesterdaykicked off another phase of its mass vaccination drive aimed at inoculating 35 lakh people in six days.Covid jabs will be administered simultaneously in 4,600 unions, 1,054 municipality areas…
Read More »Dengue deepens public health crisis as corona rages
Industry Desk: The father and brother of Mehedi Hasan, a resident of Mugda in Dhaka, caught dengue fever recently after recovering from COVID-19.A desperately worried Mehedi rushed them to at least five hospitals in the quest for a bed and finally got one at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University and…
Read More »BD to procure 6 cr Sinopharm vaccine doses
Staff Correspondent: The government will procure six crore more doses of Sinopharm vaccine from China to ramp up the inoculation drive across Bangladesh, said Health Minister Zahid Maleque yesterday.“We’ve signed a deal with China to receive 1.5 crore doses of Sinopharm vaccine. China has already started sending the vaccine doses.…
Read More »1000-bed BSMMU COVID field hospital inaugurated
Staff Correspondent: A 1,000-bed field hospital to treat patients infected with coronavirus has been inaugurated at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU).Health Minister Zahid Maleque inaugurated the university’s ‘Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib Covid Field Hospital’ at 12:00 yesterday.Director of the hospital, Prof. Dr. Md. Sharfuddin Ahmed said that the patient…
Read More »Combination of vitamin C and zinc can help prevent Delta variant: Dr Bijon
Staff Correspondent: Noting that there is no substitute for wearing facemasks and getting vaccinated, scientist Dr Bijon Kumar Sil said the combination of vitamin C and zinc can help prevent the Delta variant of Covid-19.At a webinar held yesterday on the effects of the Delta variant and the possible way…
Read More »Delta variant found 98pc cases in country
Staff Correspondent: Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Md Sharfuddin Ahmed said that 98 percent of the coronavirus patients in the country are currently infected with the delta variant, popularly known as the Indian variant of the coronavirus.He made the remarks while unveiling the report of a…
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Hotels to be converted for Covid hospitals
Hospitals overwhelmed Staff Correspondent: The government is going to rent hotels for providing treatment …
