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Global COVID-19 cases double in 14 days

Global COVID-19 cases double in 14 days

-- 2020-04-15 20:51:33

The number of COVID-19 cases reported worldwide passed two million on Tuesday. It took 83 days to reach the first million cases worldwide and just 14 days for the second million, reports bdnews24.com...

Lockdowns should be lifted in two-week stages to stem COVID-19 spread: WHO

Lockdowns should be lifted in two-week stages to stem COVID-19 spread: WHO

-- 2020-04-15 18:18:18

Countries that ease restrictions imposed to fight the spread of the coronavirus should wait at least two weeks to evaluate the impact of such changes before easing again, the World Health Organization...

Positioning coronavirus patients on their stomachs can save lives: Doctors

Positioning coronavirus patients on their stomachs can save lives: Doctors

-- 2020-04-15 13:07:11

Doctors are finding that placing the sickest coronavirus patients on their stomachs (called prone positioning) helps increase the amount of oxygen that's getting to their lungs, according to a CNN rep...

GSK, Sanofi team up to develop COVID-19 vaccine

GSK, Sanofi team up to develop COVID-19 vaccine

-- 2020-04-14 21:26:37

GlaxoSmithKline Plc and Sanofi SA said on Tuesday they would develop a vaccine to fight the fast-spreading coronavirus. The drugmakers said they expect to start clinical trials for the vaccine in the...

COVID-19 vaccine at least 12 months off: WHO

COVID-19 vaccine at least 12 months off: WHO

-- 2020-04-14 18:51:01

The number of new cases of COVID-19 is easing in some parts of Europe, including Italy and Spain, but outbreaks are still growing in Britain and Turkey and countries of other continents including Bang...

Global COVID-19 cases surpass 1.9m

Global COVID-19 cases surpass 1.9m

-- 2020-04-14 16:47:23

Confirmed COVID-19 cases across the world topped 1.9 million on Monday, according to the Centre for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University in USA. The fresh figure reached...

Three dengue patients hospitalised in 24 hours

Three dengue patients hospitalised in 24 hours

-- 2020-04-14 15:58:27

Three new dengue patients were hospitalised in the last 24 hours till 8am on Tuesday, said the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). According to daily update from the DGHS, six dengue patie...

China approves experimental coronavirus vaccine trials

China approves experimental coronavirus vaccine trials

REUTERS 2020-04-14 10:28:07

China has approved early-stage human tests for two experimental vaccines to combat the new coronavirus as it battles to contain imported cases, especially from neighbouring Russia, the new “fron...

Unilever Bangladesh pledges BDT 200m to fight Covid-19

Unilever Bangladesh pledges BDT 200m to fight Covid-19

FE Online Desk 2020-04-11 17:31:37

  Unilever Bangladesh Limited (UBL) has pledged BDT 200 million to help the nation in its fight against COVID – 19.   The commitment includes wide-ranging measures such as product d...

GSK partners with CARE BD to support COVID-19 patients

GSK partners with CARE BD to support COVID-19 patients

FE Online Desk 2020-04-11 17:13:49

  With the financial support from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Bangladesh funded HALOW+ (Health Access and Linkage Opportunities for Workers Plus) project, GSK recently distributed personal protective...

Two thirds of COVID-19 patients improve after Gilead drug

Two thirds of COVID-19 patients improve after Gilead drug

REUTERS 2020-04-11 15:18:16

More than two-thirds of severely ill COVID-19 patients saw their condition improve after treatment with remdesivir, an experimental drug being developed by Gilead Sciences Inc., according to new data...

WHO warns of lifting virus restrictions prematurely

WHO warns of lifting virus restrictions prematurely

REUTERS 2020-04-11 09:46:11

The World Health Organization (WHO) warned countries on Friday to be cautious about lifting restrictions introduced to curb the spread of the new coronavirus and voiced alarm it was taking hold in Afr...

Summit Group, CMPort jointly provide 2000 protective suits, 50,000 masks

Summit Group, CMPort jointly provide 2000 protective suits, 50,000 masks

FE Online Desk 2020-04-10 18:25:01

Summit Group and China Merchant Port Group (“CMPort”) have jointly provided high quality two thousand Protective Suits and fifty thousand masks specifically made for serving the Covid-19 p...

Amid COVID-19, biomedical waste turning more hazardous

Amid COVID-19, biomedical waste turning more hazardous

-- 2020-04-10 13:33:28

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has already turned healthy places around the world into living hells with massive death tolls because of its fastest-spreading nature, and continuously leading to lockdow...

Coronavirus fuels a surge in fake medicines

Coronavirus fuels a surge in fake medicines

Sam Piranty, BBC 2020-04-09 17:33:06

Growing numbers of fake medicines linked to coronavirus are on sale in developing countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. A BBC News investigation found fake drugs for sale in Afri...

Young doctors brave overwhelming coronavirus crisis

Young doctors brave overwhelming coronavirus crisis

REUTERS 2020-04-09 15:57:30

For young doctors like 26-year-old Christian Vigil, battling on the frontline against the new coronavirus is a journey back in time to an era they can scarcely imagine. “We feel like doctors a...

WHO chief urges end to ‘politicisation’ of coronavirus

WHO chief urges end to ‘politicisation’ of coronavirus

-- 2020-04-09 09:00:22

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has urged unity, as the agency comes under continued fire from US President Donald Trump. Speaking on Wednesday, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebre...

Do men fare worse with COVID-19?

Do men fare worse with COVID-19?

Reuters 2020-04-08 18:11:37

Death and infection tolls from the COVID-19 pandemic spreading around the world point to men being more likely than women to contract the disease and to suffer severe or critical complications if they...

Coronavirus: Expert suggests listening to health professionals only

Coronavirus: Expert suggests listening to health professionals only

-- 2020-04-07 18:25:58

Dr. Shafi Bhuiyan, an internationally-recognised leader in global public health and education initiative, has suggested people to listen to health professionals only as confusing messages from unlimit...

WHO, partners call for urgent investment in nurses

WHO, partners call for urgent investment in nurses

-- 2020-04-07 10:14:51

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday said the Covid-19 pandemic underscores the urgent need to strengthen the global health workforce. A new report, The State of the World’s Nursing 2...

US company poised to start COVID-19 vaccine safety test

US company poised to start COVID-19 vaccine safety test

-- 2020-04-07 09:39:46

A second US company, Inovio Pharmaceuticals, is poised to begin safety test of a vaccine against coronavirus (COVID-19) on Monday. The pharmaceuticals company said Monday that the US Food and Drug Ad...

Global coronavirus cases cross 1.1m, death toll passes 60,000

Global coronavirus cases cross 1.1m, death toll passes 60,000

-- 2020-04-04 21:58:40

More than 1.1 million people were infected by the novel coronavirus across the world and 60,049 have died, according to a Reuters tally. Infections were reported in more than 200 countries and territ...

NRBC Bank forms Health Desk

NRBC Bank forms Health Desk

FE Online Desk 2020-04-04 17:19:34

NRBC Bank has formed a special Health Desk comprised of a group of renowned specialized doctors from home and abroad. The Health Desk will provide necessary medical advices regarding prevention of CO...

Covid-19 tests: Technicians to be trained on PCR machines

Covid-19 tests: Technicians to be trained on PCR machines

Kamrun Nahar 2020-04-04 09:42:26

Application engineer and molecular biologists of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) machine vendors will provide training to the people deployed in the newly set up laboratories for Covid-19 tests...

Lockdown will take its own toll on health, researchers warn

Lockdown will take its own toll on health, researchers warn

REUTERS 2020-04-04 09:37:41

It’s the most dramatic government intervention into our lives since World War II. To fight the coronavirus outbreak, governments across the globe have closed schools, travel and businesses big a...

World’s 230 political parties seek closer cooperation against COVID-19

World’s 230 political parties seek closer cooperation against COVID-19

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-04-03 19:44:20

More than 230 political parties, including the Communist Party of China, have called for closer international cooperation against COVID-19 pandemic it has posed serious challenge to the humanity and w...

Fujifilm says new coronavirus test can produce results in two hours

Fujifilm says new coronavirus test can produce results in two hours

-- 2020-04-03 13:31:07

Fujifilm Holdings Corp said it has developed a new test for the novel coronavirus that reduces the results time to about two hours. The test was developed by subsidiary Fujifilm Wako Pure Chemical Co...

WHO’s COVID-19 advice for the public: Myth busters

WHO’s COVID-19 advice for the public: Myth busters

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-04-03 13:20:27

As the world struggles with containing and treating the new coronavirus disease COVID-19 in the absence of any vaccine or medication, misinformation on the disease keeps spreading online. Given this,...

Global coronavirus deaths top 50,000

Global coronavirus deaths top 50,000

-- 2020-04-02 23:37:10

Global coronavirus deaths topped 50,200 on Thursday as the pandemic ravages the United States and Europe, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University, reports Reuters.  Reported cases of th...

No new dengue case in 24 hrs   

No new dengue case in 24 hrs  

-- 2020-04-02 16:55:00

No new dengue case was reported in the last 24 hours until 8 am on Thursday, informed the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), reports UNB. According to daily update from DGHS, two dengue...