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SM NAJMUS SAKIB 2020-07-05 09:53:36
The absence of a certain guideline and a policy on use of the much-talked-about plasma therapy in Covid-19 treatment has left the therapy seekers in an awkward situation. Against this backdrop vested...
Xinhua 2020-07-04 17:00:09
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday urged countries hit by coronavirus disease to ‘wake up’ to the pandemic situation on the ground and to ‘take control’ of the sprea...
-- 2020-07-04 11:22:29
Almost 30 per cent of genome sequencing data from samples of the Covid-19 virus collected by the World Health Organization (WHO) have shown signs of mutation, but there is no evidence this has led to...
UNB 2020-07-03 17:48:48
Altogether 1,000 scientists and researchers from all over the world agreed on the need for more trials to test antivirals, immunomodulatory drugs and anti-thrombotic agents, as well as combination the...
-- 2020-07-03 17:05:03
Bangladesh is now 8th country in the world in weekly increase in coronavirus cases, according to World Health Organization (WHO). The country ranked 8th with 26,598 new COVID-19 cases in the last sev...
BBC 2020-07-03 14:26:50
People testing negative for coronavirus antibodies may still have some immunity, a study has suggested. For every person testing positive for antibodies, two were found to have specific T-cells which...
Reuters 2020-07-02 18:09:17
A COVID-19 vaccine developed by German biotech firm BioNTech and US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has shown potential and was found to be well tolerated in early-stage human trials, the companies said o...
-- 2020-07-01 20:34:16
The US Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday released guidance for approving a coronavirus vaccine, saying the vaccine has to prevent or decrease disease severity in at least 50 per cent of people w...
-- 2020-06-30 19:24:51
A global trial designed to test whether the anti-malaria drugs hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine can prevent infection with COVID-19 is to restart after being approved by British regulators. The Med...
REUTERS 2020-06-30 12:09:02
Bharat Biotech’s Covid-19 vaccine has been approved for human trials, making it India’s first domestic candidate to get the green light from the government’s drug regulator as cases...
-- 2020-06-30 11:36:39
Chinese scientists have expressed concern after detecting another new strain of flu that has the potential to become a pandemic. The newly emerged flu virus is carried by pigs, but can infect humans...
REUTERS 2020-06-30 09:56:09
The Covid-19 pandemic is not even close to being over, World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a briefing on Monday. Tedros noted that, six months after China first alerted th...
-- 2020-06-29 20:45:27
Healthcare officials and experts have said despite continued coronavirus onslaughts claiming lives, infection recovery rate in Bangladesh was higher than the global average, a phenomenon they attribut...
-- 2020-06-29 18:27:24
Gilead Sciences Inc said on Monday it has priced its COVID-19 treatment candidate remdesivir at $390 per vial in the United States and other developed countries. Based on current treatment patterns,...
-- 2020-06-28 16:46:02
Some 105 global leaders, including 18 Nobel Laureates, have signed a call initiated by Yunus Centre to declare COVID-19 Vaccines as a global common good. Some 32 former chiefs of states and governmen...
REUTERS 2020-06-28 15:57:54
China National Biotec Group said on Sunday that early human test results for a coronavirus vaccine candidate suggested it could be safe and effective, the second vaccine candidate from the firm to sho...
Reuters 2020-06-28 14:04:41
In the six months since an entirely new coronavirus began spreading around the world, doctors and hospitals have learnt a lot about how to treat patients with Covid-19, the potentially deadly disease...
REUTERS 2020-06-28 12:50:27
A global fundraising meeting on Saturday raised 6.15 billion euros ($6.9 billion) from the United States, the European Commission and numerous countries to fight Covid-19, with many participants stres...
REUTERS 2020-06-28 11:28:52
Global coronavirus cases exceeded 10 million on Sunday according to a Reuters tally, marking a major milestone in the spread of the respiratory disease that has so far killed almost half a million peo...
REUTERS 2020-06-28 10:19:20
Dr Gopi Patel recalls how powerless she felt when New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital overflowed with Covid-19 patients in March. Guidance on how to treat the disease was scant, and medical studies...
REUTERS 2020-06-27 10:56:25
Scientists are only starting to grasp the vast array of health problems caused by the novel coronavirus, some of which may have lingering effects on patients and health systems for years to come, acco...
FE Report 2020-06-27 09:52:05
The reproduction number of R value of Covid-19 in Bangladesh is 1.5. With R value remaining more than 1.0, the number of virus cases is likely to rise exponentially. Under the current infection sc...
Reuters 2020-06-26 22:52:20
AstraZeneca's experimental COVID-19 vaccine is probably the world's leading candidate and most advanced in terms of development, the World Health Organization's (WHO) chief scientist said on Friday....
AP 2020-06-25 21:52:20
About a dozen different vaccines of Coronavirus are in various stages of testing worldwide, including in Britain, China and the US. Dr Anthony Fauci, the top US infectious disease expert, this week s...
REUTERS 2020-06-25 11:05:16
The world faces a shortage of oxygen concentrators as the number of worldwide cases of coronavirus infection nears the 10 million mark, the World Health Organization head said on Wednesday. “Ma...
Xinhua 2020-06-24 12:21:39
An international research team suggests the use of ultraviolet light indoors to reduce the transmission of coronavirus, the northern Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) said on Tuesday. The rec...
Reuters 2020-06-23 20:49:16
A trial in pigs of AstraZeneca's experimental COVID-19 vaccine has found that two doses of the shot produced a greater antibody response than a single dose. Research released by Britain's Pirbright I...
AP 2020-06-23 18:33:18
Amid the worsening coronavirus situation, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases is showing a surge on Tuesday in many countries including the US where lockdowns have been lifted. In parts of West...
FE Online Report 2020-06-23 17:56:55
The COVID-19 pandemic is unravelling decades of health, education and other advances for children across South Asia, and governments must take urgent action to prevent millions of families from slippi...
REUTERS 2020-06-23 15:49:58
French drugmaker Sanofi SA said on Tuesday it expects to get approval for the potential COVID-19 vaccine it is developing with Britain’s GlaxoSmithKline Plc by the first half of next year, faste...
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