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Charity Right initiates programmes for poor families

FE Online Desk 2020-04-29 19:06:57

Charity Right Bangladesh, an international social welfare organization, is taking extensive initiative to fight against the recent corona virus outbreak by ensuring and securing the daily es...

Gazi Group launches country's first pvt PCR lab

FE Online Desk 2020-04-29 17:25:27

For the first time in Bangladesh, a polymerase chain reaction laboratory or PCR lab has been launched in a private initiative in Rupganj upazila of Narayanganj district to facilitate diagnos...

Coca-Cola BD pledges Tk 115m to fight COVID-19

FE Online Desk 2020-04-28 18:24:29

Coca-Cola in Bangladesh has committed an initial support of Tk 11.5 crores towards helping the healthcare system and communities through food package and distribution of beverages to combat the crisis...

Avoid foods with trans fats and stay healthy: Experts

-- 2020-04-28 13:38:38

Experts have advised people to avoid all sorts of foods with trans fats to stay healthy during their confinement to home amid the nationwide lockdown aimed at curbing the transmission of coronavirus....

COVID-19: Four Chinese experts to work with IEDCR

-- 2020-04-28 12:47:44

A four-member team of Chinese experts having experience in epidemic prevention and control will work closely with Bangladesh to help overcome the challenges of coronavirus, UNB reports. Sinovatio, a...

Global coronavirus cases pass three million

-- 2020-04-27 22:59:20

Global confirmed coronavirus cases surpassed three million on Monday and cases in the United States neared one million, according to a Reuters tally. It comes at the time when many countries are taki...

Dhaka Bank supports Covid-affected in Bagerhat

FE Online Desk 2020-04-27 14:39:04

Dhaka Bank Limited donated Tk 1.0 million to Bagerhat DC Office to support poor & underprivileged people of Baderhat district to fight against coronavirus pandemic. Mr. Mehedi Zaman Khan, Manager,...

Praava Health launches COVID-19 self-assessment tool, chatbot, webpage

FE Online Desk 2020-04-27 00:38:05

Praava Health launched an online COVID-19 self-assessment tool, a Facebook Chatbot, and a dedicated COVID-19 Webpage in response to the global coronavirus pandemic. These services are meant to help pa...

Gazi Group donates PPE to 6 top hospitals in Dhaka

FE Online Desk 2020-04-27 00:28:17

Gazi Group, one of the leading business organizations in the country, has provided lifesaving gear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for health workers, including doctors at Shaheed Suhrawar...

Coronavirus test at CoMCH starts Tuesday

-- 2020-04-26 21:09:12

Comilla Medical College Hospital (CoMCH) is set to start conducting coronavirus test from Tuesday. The test lab will be formally inaugurated at the Microbiology department on Monday, said its pri...

India hands over second tranche of coronavirus aid

FE Online Report 2020-04-26 16:52:53

India on Monday provided the second tranche of emergency medical supply to Bangladesh to help fight the spread of coronavirus. Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka, Riva Ganguly Das, handed over the eme...

G20 launches initiative for health tools to combat coronavirus

REUTERS 2020-04-26 10:26:34

The group of 20 rich and emerging economies on Sunday launched an international initiative to accelerate access to health tools needed to fight the new coronavirus. The finance minister of Saudi Arab...

‘No evidence yet that recovered COVID patients cannot be reinfected’

-- 2020-04-25 16:26:52

The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned against issuing ‘immunity passports’ or ‘risk-free certificates’ to COVID-19 patients. It said that there was currently ‘n...

US FDA warns against use of malaria drugs for COVID-19

Reuters 2020-04-24 22:29:39

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday cautioned against the use of malaria drugs, hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, in COVID-19 patients outside of hospitals and clinical trials, citin...

World leaders, except US, launch WHO COVID-19 plan

-- 2020-04-24 21:21:23

Global leaders joined the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday to launch an initiative to accelerate work on drugs, tests and vaccines against COVID-19 and to share them around the world. French...

World leaders due to launch COVID-19 drugs, vaccine plan: WHO

-- 2020-04-24 19:25:58

French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel will help launch a global initiative on Friday to accelerate work on drugs, tests and vaccines against COVID-19 and to shar...

WHO to launch initiative to share COVID-19 drugs, tests and vaccines

REUTERS 2020-04-24 10:34:49

The World Health Organization (WHO) said it would announce a "landmark collaboration" on Friday to speed development of safe, effective drugs, tests and vaccines to prevent, diagnose and treat COVID-1...

Praava Health launches telemedicine services to serve covid-19 patients

FE Online Desk 2020-04-21 22:02:57

Praava Health introduced several new telemedicine options in response to the COVID-19 pandemic for all Patients and the broader community. These services include a dedicated COVID-19 hotline and video...

‘Lifting of lockdown must be gradual to avoid infection rebound’

Reuters 2020-04-21 19:23:56

The World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Tuesday that any lifting of lockdowns to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus must be gradual, and if restrictions were to be relaxed too soon, the...

‘First human trials of coronavirus vaccine within days’

-- 2020-04-21 18:00:09

As deadly coronavirus continues to spread across the globe, strategies for developing a safe and effective vaccine are rapidly moving forward, according to reports carried by various global news media...

Coronavirus likely originated in bats, not created in lab: WHO

-- 2020-04-21 17:19:57

The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday that all available evidence suggests that the novel coronavirus originated in bats in China late last year and it was not manipulated or constructed...

New York launches COVID-19 antibody testing

-- 2020-04-21 12:07:47

The US state of New York has launched a large-scale COVID-19 antibody testing starting on Monday in an effort to find out how much of its population has been infected with the virus. The testing is...

'Misuse of special powers may affect COVID-19 media coverage'

-- 2020-04-20 20:01:50

The Commonwealth Journalists Association (CJA) has warned its member states against misuse of extraordinary powers to silence independent media coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. The states have a...

Gazi Group donates PPEs to Mugda Medical, NIDCH

FE Online Desk 2020-04-20 18:55:31

Gazi Group, one of the leading business entities in the country, has provided with consignment of life-saving safety gear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for health workers, including doctors, a...

Mr. Noodles extends food support for poor families through Bidyanondo

FE Online Desk 2020-04-19 16:17:40

Mr. Noodles, country’s leading noodles brand, has come forward to support Bidyanondo Foundation’s ongoing program Ek Takay Ahar (one taka meal). Noodles has been distributed recently among...

30pc symptom-less patients go undiagnosed

Kamrun Nahar 2020-04-19 09:02:39

The number of conducted tests for confirming Covid-19 infection is not matching with the number of suspected patients across the country, as 30 per cent of the asymptomatic patients still remain out o...

Drugs, tests and tactics that may beat coronavirus

Reuters 2020-04-18 17:03:14

With much of the world living in lockdown, the spread of the new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, that was first detected in China late last year is beginning to slow in some places. As of Friday, 2.18 millio...

Gilead increases enrollment target for remdesivir trial in COVID-19 patients

REUTERS 2020-04-18 10:45:37

Gilead Sciences Inc on Friday increased enrollment target by 3,600 for a trial testing its experimental drug, remdesivir, in severe COVID-19 patients, a day after a media report said the drug was show...

Europe COVID-19 cases almost at 1m, coming weeks ‘critical’: WHO

-- 2020-04-16 17:26:43

Europe is in eye of the storm of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the number of cases nearing a million, and should move with extreme caution when considering easing lockdowns, the World Health Organisatio...

Polio vaccine not recommended for coronavirus prevention: WHO

-- 2020-04-16 10:27:34

The World Health Organization (WHO) does not recommend oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) for preventing coronavirus (COVID-19), according to its daily situation report released on Wednesday. The UN body...