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  • 181 more admitted in hospital in a day

    Alarming Dengue surge Staff Correspondent: Health authorities reported 181 new dengue cases in the last 24 hours till Thursday morning, highest this year so far amid a spike in the Aedes mosquito-borne disease in the country.Bangladesh has been seeing over 100 dengue patients for the last six days adding worries…

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  • PM for massive Covid vaccination to ensure everyone’s protection

    Staff Correspondent: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said she has instructed the authorities concerned to inoculate the people massively with Covid-19 vaccines to ensure protection of all.“We have started purchasing vaccines. Inoculation has already started. We have to ensure massive vaccination so that all the people of our country are…

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  • Healthcare, education hampered for chaos

    Dhaka Shishu Hospital Special Correspondent: Allegation has been intensified that the healthcare and educational activities of Dhaka Shishu (Children) Hospital (DSH) are being hampered tremendously due to massive irregularities and mismanagement of the authorities concerned as well as conflict and chaos between two rival groups of the teachers and students…

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  • BD to launch walk-in Covid vaccinations at union level

    Staff Correspondent: Bangladesh is set to launch walk-in vaccination at union level allowing the people to be jabbed showing their national identity (ID) cards as ordered by Prime Minister’ Sheikh Hasina to intensify the nationwide inoculation campaign.“We have installed vaccination centres at union levels . . . the people will…

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  • Pfizer, AstraZeneca vaccine antibody levels may decline in 2-3 months: Lancet study

    Industry Desk: Total antibody levels start to wane six weeks after complete immunisation with Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines, and can reduce by more than 50 per cent over 10 weeks, according to study published in The Lancet journal.The researchers from University College London (UCL) in the UK noted that if…

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  • BD sees highest daily 247 Covid deaths, 15,192 cases

    Staff Correspondent: Bangladesh yesterday recorded highest ever daily 247 deaths from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours raising the number of total fatalities to 19,521. Besides, 15,192 people have tested positive for coronavirus in the last 24 hours, raising the total number of coronavirus cases in the country to 11,79,827.The…

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  • New more decisions coming to tackle Covid-19

    Staff Correspondent: The prevalence of Covid-19 in the country is increasing day by day. No measures have been effective to reduce the severity of this deadly virus. On the other hand, many are not following the government-announced lockdown and restrictions. For this, the Cabinet Division has called a high-level meeting…

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  • When and how the cry for ICU will stop?

    MaMassive spread of Covid Delta variant Golam Mostafa Jibon:As the number of patients with Coronavirus increases continuously, there is an outcry for ICUs (intensive care units) in hospitals in and outside the capital.In some hospitals, patients take last breath, while waiting for ICU beds for several days. Many delta patients…

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  • 250 ventilators collected from US at PM’s directive

    Staff Correspondent: Bangladesh has collected United States (US)-made 250 ventilators, an essential treatment gear for COVID-19 patients, following the directives of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.As per the premier’s instructions, a group of expatriate Bangladeshi physicians residing in the USA and Canada, led by Dr Ziauddin Ahmed, collected the mobile ventilators…

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  • More than 1.18 cr register for vaccine

    Staff Correspondent: 1,18,49,097 people have registered to get the coronavirus (Covid-19) vaccine in the country till Saturday.The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) released a statement yesterday regarding the Covid-19 vaccine.It is said that 4,147 people have been vaccinated with the first dose of Pfizer. With this, the total number…

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