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Huawei Cloud launches AI-Assisted diagnosis for COVID-19

Huawei Cloud launches AI-Assisted diagnosis for COVID-19

FE Online Desk 2020-03-16 13:29:07

In the face of the COVID-19 epidemic, the National Health Commission of China has included CT features of COVID-19 as the clinical diagnosis standard for COVID-19 in Hubei Province in its official dia...

Germany tries to halt US interest in firm working on coronavirus vaccine

Germany tries to halt US interest in firm working on coronavirus vaccine

REUTERS 2020-03-16 10:14:41

Berlin is trying to stop Washington from persuading a German company seeking a coronavirus vaccine to move its research to the United States, prompting German politicians to insist no country should h...

Prevention measures beefed up worldwide as new virus on rampage

Prevention measures beefed up worldwide as new virus on rampage

Xinhua 2020-03-15 18:06:38

Countries around the world are beefing up control and prevention measures to contain further spread of the novel coronavirus. World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyes...

First human trials of coronavirus within days

First human trials of coronavirus within days

UNB 2020-03-14 21:15:01

The first human trials of a coronavirus vaccine are to be launched within days, scientists in the US have said which has showed some kind of hope to the world citizens, even though the situation has a...

Countries close borders, restrict travel to prevent coronavirus spread

Countries close borders, restrict travel to prevent coronavirus spread

-- 2020-03-14 18:00:25

Countries around the world on Saturday continued to close borders, impose strict entry and quarantine requirements and restrict large gatherings in efforts to contain the spread of the new coronavirus...

Seminar on coronavirus  at DU on March 15

Seminar on coronavirus at DU on March 15

FE Online Desk 2020-03-13 16:26:52

A seminar on “Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreak : Challenges and Concerns for Bangladesh” will be held under the auspices of Biotechnology Research Centre (BRC) of Dhaka University (DU) at 1...

Coronavirus: ADB to provide $200m on medical supplies

Coronavirus: ADB to provide $200m on medical supplies

-- 2020-03-12 14:44:51

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has said that it will make available 200 million US dollars through its Supply Chain Finance Programme for companies manufacturing and distributing medical supplies to...

794 infected with respiratory problems in 24 hrs

794 infected with respiratory problems in 24 hrs

-- 2020-03-11 17:37:35

Nearly 800 people were infected with respiratory problems across the country in the last 24 hours till Wednesday morning. Data from the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) control room show...

33.9m children to get measles-rubella vaccine

33.9m children to get measles-rubella vaccine

FE Online Report 2020-03-10 20:58:39

33.9 million children of the country will get vaccination for measles and rubella (MR) during a three-week campaign starting on March 18. The children within the age group—nine months to under...

Over 20m kidney patients, only 10 pc get treatment

Over 20m kidney patients, only 10 pc get treatment

FE Online Desk 2020-03-10 14:30:22

Speakers at a roundtable programme on Monday urged for launching massive public awareness programmes in a bid to prevent kidney diseases. Speaking at the National Press Club the speakers said that ab...

Initiative to speed development and access to therapies for COVID-19

Initiative to speed development and access to therapies for COVID-19

FE Online Desk 2020-03-10 14:07:31

SEATTLE, March 10, 2020 – The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome, and Mastercard today committed up to $125 million in seed funding to speed-up the response to the COVID-19 epidemic b...

Coronavirus hit over 100 countries: WHO

Coronavirus hit over 100 countries: WHO

Xinhua 2020-03-08 17:40:17

One hundred and one countries and regions have reported confirmed cases of COVID-19 as of Sunday morning, World Health Organization (WHO) spokesperson Fadela Chaib told Xinhua. A total of 105,427 con...

Molecular test available at referral lab

Molecular test available at referral lab

KAMRUN NAHAR 2020-03-08 11:21:24

Parents now can know about any disease of a baby in the womb or any genetic, immunological or infectious disease through molecular test in Bangladesh. The National Institute of Laboratory Medicine an...

Researchers identify two types of coronavirus

Researchers identify two types of coronavirus

Reuters 2020-03-04 22:05:20

Scientists in China studying the coronavirus outbreak said they had found two main types of the disease could be causing infections. The researchers, from Peking University's School of Life Sciences...

Two dengue patients reported in 24 hours

Two dengue patients reported in 24 hours

-- 2020-03-04 17:49:23

Two new dengue patients were hospitalised in the last 24 hours till 8:00am on Wednesday, said the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). According to daily update from DGHS, two dengue patien...

WHO warns of global shortage of medical equipment to fight coronavirus

WHO warns of global shortage of medical equipment to fight coronavirus

Reuters 2020-03-04 10:39:43

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday warned of a global shortage and price gouging for protective equipment to fight the fast-spreading coronavirus and asked companies and governments to inc...

US investigating production of faulty coronavirus test kits

US investigating production of faulty coronavirus test kits

-- 2020-03-02 16:24:34

The US Department of Health and Human Services is investigating a manufacturing defect in some initial coronavirus test kits that prompted some states to seek emergency approval to use their own test...

   Two more cases of dengue infection reported in 24 hrs

  Two more cases of dengue infection reported in 24 hrs

-- 2020-03-01 16:55:38

Two new dengue patients were hospitalised in the last 24 hours until 8:00am on Sunday, said the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). According to daily update from DGHS, three dengue pati...

Fish oil supplements offer ‘little or no benefit’ against cancer

Fish oil supplements offer ‘little or no benefit’ against cancer

-- 2020-02-29 11:50:51

Taking omega-3 supplements offers "little to no" benefit against cancer, say experts. Consumption of fish oil supplements is promoted as having a wide range of positive impacts on health. These are...

ADB approves $2m in support for combating coronavirus

ADB approves $2m in support for combating coronavirus

-- 2020-02-28 12:20:41

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) further approved 2 million US dollars to help Asia-Pacific developing countries contain the coronavirus outbreak and improve resilience other communicable diseases. A...

Three-week measles-rubella vaccination campaign begins Saturday

Three-week measles-rubella vaccination campaign begins Saturday

-- 2020-02-26 18:07:38

A three-weeklong ‘Measles-Rubella (MR) Vaccination Campaign- 2020’ will begin on February 29 across the country aiming at fulfilling the national measles elimination target. During the ca...

Nearly 2,500 patients get free medical treatment at KAMPS

Nearly 2,500 patients get free medical treatment at KAMPS

-- 2020-02-22 19:23:07

More than 2,500 poor patients received free treatment and were distributed with necessary medicine on Friday at a ‘Free Medical Camp’, held at Hatibandha, Shakhipur in Tangail. Kidney Awa...

One new dengue patient admitted to hospital

One new dengue patient admitted to hospital

-- 2020-02-22 17:55:12

A new dengue case was reported in the last 24 hours until 8:00am on Saturday, said the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). According to the daily update from DGHS, only one dengue patient...

Coronavirus to be big topic for G20 as China reports uptick in cases

Coronavirus to be big topic for G20 as China reports uptick in cases

-- 2020-02-21 11:00:46

China reported an uptick in new cases of coronavirus on Friday although the rise in infections remained at its slowest pace since January, a downward trend which the World Health Organization (WHO) ha...

Study suggests elderly, sick most at risk of coronavirus

Study suggests elderly, sick most at risk of coronavirus

-- 2020-02-18 21:17:38

BEIJING, Feb 18 (BBC): Health officials in China have published the first details of more than 70,000 cases of Covid-19, in the biggest study since the outbreak began. Data from the Chinese Centre fo...

Donor scarcity kills 54 kidney patients each day: Experts

Donor scarcity kills 54 kidney patients each day: Experts

-- 2020-02-08 20:29:04

Experts at a conference on Saturday stressed the need for creating public awareness over donation of kidney and other organs as 54 kidney patients die on average every day just due to scarcity of dono...

Coronavirus: BD ill-prepared to fight potential outbreak

Coronavirus: BD ill-prepared to fight potential outbreak

Saif Uddin and SM Najmus Sakib 2020-02-08 10:08:43

Bangladesh's healthcare system remains inadequately prepared to cope with the potential outbreak of fatal coronavirus, which has so far killed more than 600 people. While state-backed hospitals have...

World facing shortage of coronavirus protective equipment: WHO

World facing shortage of coronavirus protective equipment: WHO

-- 2020-02-07 20:44:53

The world is facing a chronic shortage of gowns, masks, gloves and other protective equipment in the fight against a spreading coronavirus epidemic, World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhano...

Gates Foundation donates $100m to fight coronavirus

Gates Foundation donates $100m to fight coronavirus

-- 2020-02-07 18:16:02

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has announced that it will immediately commit up to $100 million for the global response to the 2019 novel coronavirus, reports IANS. The Seattle-based foundatio...

$675 million needed to fight new coronavirus outbreak: WHO

$675 million needed to fight new coronavirus outbreak: WHO

-- 2020-02-06 15:05:20

The international community has launched a $675 million preparedness and response plan covering the months of February through to April 2020 in order to fight further spread of the new coronavirus out...