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Dettol Harpic, Bangladesh Scouts donate hygiene products to frontline  activists

Dettol Harpic, Bangladesh Scouts donate hygiene products to frontline activists

FE Online Desk 2020-06-22 21:58:19

To safeguard the frontline health activists against Corona, "Dettol Harpic Porichchonno Bangladesh" has distributed disinfectants and cleaning materials to Dhaka North City Corporation, Dhaka Sou...

WHO reports record daily increase in coronavirus cases

WHO reports record daily increase in coronavirus cases

REUTERS 2020-06-22 09:43:32

The World Health Organization reported a record increase in global coronavirus cases on Sunday, with the total rising by 183,020 in a 24-hour period. The biggest increase was from North and South Ame...

Coronavirus pandemic accelerating, warns WHO

Coronavirus pandemic accelerating, warns WHO

-- 2020-06-19 22:01:42

The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating, with Thursday's 150,000 new cases the highest in a single day and nearly half of them in the Americas, the World Health Organization (WHO) said, reports Reute...

Use plasma therapy for Covid-19 patients with caution: Experts

Use plasma therapy for Covid-19 patients with caution: Experts

-- 2020-06-19 14:59:06

Doctors in Bangladesh are leaning toward using plasma therapy for treating the severe cases of Covid-19 as it proved 'fruitful' in most cases, bdnews24.com reports. Despite the increased use of the t...

Unilever Bangladesh donates BiPAP breathing machines

Unilever Bangladesh donates BiPAP breathing machines

FE Online Desk 2020-06-19 13:52:38

Unilever Bangladesh donated BiPAP breathing machines to SAJIDA Foundation. Shamima Akhter, Head- Corporate Affairs, Partnerships & Communications of Unilever Bangladesh handed over the BiPAP Brea...

WHO hopes for hundreds of millions of vaccine doses this year, two billion next year

WHO hopes for hundreds of millions of vaccine doses this year, two billion next year

-- 2020-06-18 20:26:30

The World Health Organisation hopes hundreds of millions of doses of coronavirus vaccine can be produced this year and two billion doses by the end of 2021, chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan said on...

WHO halts trial of malaria drug hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19 patients

WHO halts trial of malaria drug hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19 patients

-- 2020-06-17 23:22:54

The World Health Organisation said on Wednesday that testing of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine in its large multi-country trial of treatments for COVID-19 patients had been halted after results f...

City Bank donates nasal cannula to  Ctg General Hospital

City Bank donates nasal cannula to Ctg General Hospital

FE Online Desk 2020-06-17 15:50:21

City Bank has donated a high flow nasal cannula machine to Chattogram General Hospital (CGH) to facilitate treatment of corona virus disease (Covid-19) patient. The machine is donated as part of phil...

Scientists find first live-saving coronavirus drug

Scientists find first live-saving coronavirus drug

-- 2020-06-16 20:14:25

A cheap and widely available drug can help save the lives of patients seriously ill with coronavirus. The low-dose steroid treatment dexamethasone is a major breakthrough in the fight against the dea...

US revokes authorisation of hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19

US revokes authorisation of hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19

REUTERS 2020-06-16 13:29:03

The US Food and Drug Administration on Monday revoked its emergency use authorisation for hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19, but quickly came under fire from President Donald Trump, who said only U...

ADN Telecom donates 12,000 face masks to Posts and Telecommunications Dept

ADN Telecom donates 12,000 face masks to Posts and Telecommunications Dept

FE Online Desk 2020-06-15 21:58:18

Country's leading internet service provider, ADN Telecom Limited along with Chinese company, Genew Corporation has donated 12,000 face masks to protect the health of the officers and employees of va...

India recommends use of remdesivir for COVID-19

India recommends use of remdesivir for COVID-19

-- 2020-06-14 19:45:12

The Indian health ministry has recommended use of anti-viral drug remdesivir under emergency use authorisation to treat COVID-19 patients in moderate stage as the country emerged as fourth worst-hit n...

Govt to blacklist 14 medical equipment suppliers over ‘graft’

Govt to blacklist 14 medical equipment suppliers over ‘graft’

-- 2020-06-14 18:26:46

The government has moved to blacklist 14 suppliers with ties to alleged graft in equipment and machinery procurement for medical colleges and hospitals. Recommended by the Anti-Corruption Commission,...

Use of Ritonavir, Resochin, Ribavirin, Arbidol can be effective: Chinese experts

Use of Ritonavir, Resochin, Ribavirin, Arbidol can be effective: Chinese experts

-- 2020-06-14 16:49:35

The visiting Chinese medical experts have said the use of Ritonavir, Resochin, Ribavirin, and Arbidol can be effective to a great extent as they talk about specific medicine for the coronavirus. They...

Blood pressure drugs don’t add to coronavirus risk: Study

Blood pressure drugs don’t add to coronavirus risk: Study

Reuters 2020-06-14 16:30:28

New research offers reassuring evidence to hundreds of millions of people with high blood pressure that popular anti-hypertension drugs do not put them at greater risk from COVID-19 as some experts ha...

AstraZeneca to supply COVID-19 vaccine in Europe

AstraZeneca to supply COVID-19 vaccine in Europe

REUTERS 2020-06-14 13:26:20

AstraZeneca Plc has signed a contract with European governments to supply the region with its potential vaccine against the coronavirus, the British drugmaker’s latest deal to pledge its drug to...

Masks significantly reduce Covid-19 infection risk: Study

Masks significantly reduce Covid-19 infection risk: Study

REUTERS 2020-06-13 10:43:03

Requiring the wearing of masks to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus in areas at the epicentre of the global pandemic may have prevented tens of thousands of infections, a new study suggests....

Technology can 'bridge the gap between demand of medical services and capacity'

Technology can 'bridge the gap between demand of medical services and capacity'

FE Online Desk 2020-06-12 22:01:40

To address how the healthcare sector in Bangladesh can thrive amid this global pandemic, eGeneration recently organised a webinar titled “Reimagine Healthcare: Save Lives wit...

Govt raises allocation for health in budget, giving priority to fight Covid-19

Govt raises allocation for health in budget, giving priority to fight Covid-19

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-06-11 17:56:28

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has proposed an increased allocation for the health and family welfare sector in the budget proposed for the fiscal year 2020-21, giving priority to activities under...

Lilly Covid-19 treatment could be authorised for use as soon as September

Lilly Covid-19 treatment could be authorised for use as soon as September

-- 2020-06-11 10:57:18

Eli Lilly and Co could have a drug specifically designed to treat Covid-19 authorised for use as early as September if all goes well with either of two antibody therapies it is testing, its chief scie...

Plasma network ‘Shohojoddha’ launched

Plasma network ‘Shohojoddha’ launched

-- 2020-06-10 18:51:58

 ‘Shohojoddha’ a plasma network has been initiated by the ICT division, Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), a2i Innovation Lab and eGeneration to facilitate the collection...

Rotary Medical Support Center's Corona service continues

Rotary Medical Support Center's Corona service continues

FE Online Desk 2020-06-09 17:37:15

 The Rotary Medical Support Center continues its services to patients during the ongoing pandemic under the supervision of Md. Rubayet Hossain, Governor of Rotary International District 3281 for...

WHO says pandemic ‘far from over’

WHO says pandemic ‘far from over’

-- 2020-06-09 10:36:21

New coronavirus cases had their biggest daily increase ever as the pandemic worsens globally and has yet to peak in central America, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday, urging countrie...

Tamim stands beside 50 coaches in Chattogram

Tamim stands beside 50 coaches in Chattogram

-- 2020-06-08 15:03:31

Newly appointed Bangladesh ODI captain and a bright son of the port city of Chattogram Tamim Iqbal continued his support to the people affected by the coronavirus pandemic.    In his latest...

IOM to produce sanitisers with district admin in Cox’s Bazar

IOM to produce sanitisers with district admin in Cox’s Bazar

-- 2020-06-07 18:30:22

International Organization for Migration (IOM) along with the collaboration of two local non-government organisations of the district administration will produce 100,000 bottles of 200 ml hand sanitiz...

FBCCI hands over PPE to ERF

FBCCI hands over PPE to ERF

FE Online Desk 2020-06-07 00:05:28

The FBCCI has handed over personal protective equipment (masks, PPEs, face shields and gloves) to the Economic Reporters Forum (ERF). Sheikh Fazle Fahim, president of the apex trade body, handed over...

Global virus cases top 7 million

Global virus cases top 7 million

-- 2020-06-06 23:19:28

Global cases of the novel coronavirus topped 7 million on Saturday, as case numbers surge in Brazil and India. About 30 per cent of those cases, or 2 million infections, are in the United States. Lat...

Covid-19: BMCH physician finds amazing results with ivermectin, Doxycycline

Covid-19: BMCH physician finds amazing results with ivermectin, Doxycycline

-- 2020-06-06 18:55:56

Physicians from Bangladesh Medical College Hospital (BMCH), led by Dr Tarek Alam, claimed that a combination of the anti-parasitic drug ‘ivermectin’ with antibiotic ‘Doxycycline&rsqu...

Only 399 ICU beds amid virus spike

Only 399 ICU beds amid virus spike

FHM HUMAYAN KABIR 2020-06-06 09:55:22

With only 399 ICU (intensive care unit) beds available for critical Covid-19 patients, the country's health sector appears ill-prepared to deal with the rising number of infected cases, according to i...

Covid-19 telemedicine service launched

Covid-19 telemedicine service launched

FE Report 2020-06-06 09:48:03

Bangladesh Society of Medicine (BSM) has recently launched a dedicated 24-hour telemedicine service for the Covid-19 patients, who are undergoing treatment at different healthcare facilities or from t...