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Nipah virus in China with up to 75pc fatality rate could be next pandemic: Report

Al Arabiya 2021-01-31 16:09:13

An outbreak of the Nipah virus in China, with a fatality rate of up to 75 per cent, could potentially be the next big pandemic risk with giant pharmaceutical companies unprepared while currently focus...

EU reverses plan to restrict vaccine exports through Irish border

Reuters 2021-01-30 16:59:40

The European Union on Friday abruptly reversed a plan to use emergency Brexit measures to restrict exports of COVID-19 vaccines from crossing the Irish border into the United Kingdom after it sent sho...

Chinese, Indian companies want to do vaccine trial in Bangladesh

KAMRUN NAHAR 2021-01-30 09:37:18

Two more pharmaceutical companies, one Chinese and one Indian, expressed intention to conduct the third phase trial of their Covid vaccines in Bangladesh. Chinese state-owned pharmaceutical company -...

J&J COVID-19 vaccine is 72pc effective in the US, and 66pc overall in large trial

Reuters 2021-01-29 19:27:19

Johnson & Johnson on Friday said its single-dose vaccine was 72 per cent effective in preventing COVID-19 in the United States but a lower rate of 66 per cent was observed globally in the large tr...

WHO urges countries to prioritise investments in testing

-- 2021-01-29 18:25:38

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Friday urged all countries to strengthen testing services and use the essential diagnostics list to drive better care...

WHO expected to review AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine on Feb 8: Expert

Reuters 2021-01-26 18:56:51

The World Health Organization's vaccine advisory panel has tentatively scheduled a review of the Astrazeneca COVID-19 vaccine for February 8, an expert said on Tuesday. "Reviewing the data from Astra...

WHO issues new clinical advice on treating COVID-19 patients

Reuters 2021-01-26 18:31:56

The World Health Organization (WHO) issued fresh clinical advice on Tuesday for treating COVID-19 patients, including those displaying persistent symptoms after recovery, and also said it advised usin...

First Made in Bangladesh COVID-19 test kit gets approval from DGDA  

FE Online Desk 2021-01-25 13:34:20

As Bangladesh fights back the COVID-19 epidemic, a Bangladeshi biotech company OMC Healthcare (Pvt.) Ltd. develops COVID-19 RT-PCR testing kit to support the health sector in Bangladesh during this ch...

  BADAS launches diabetes app, treatment guideline   

-- 2021-01-23 22:08:16

An app and guidelines were launched to treat chronic disease diabetes. The application will work based on the “Diabetes Care BADAS Guideline”. The diabetes treatment guideline was prepa...

WHO to consider two Chinese Covid vaccines next week

REUTERS 2021-01-23 13:39:25

The World Health Organization will begin considering China’s two Covid-19 vaccines for emergency approval next week, WHO Assistant Director-General Mariangela Simao said on Friday. China is pro...

AstraZeneca to cut Covid-19 vaccine supply to EU by 60pc in first quarter

REUTERS 2021-01-23 12:23:29

AstraZeneca Plc has informed European Union officials on Friday it would cut deliveries of its Covid-19 vaccine to the bloc by 60 per cent to 31 million doses in the first quarter of the year due to p...

UK sick couple rushed to marry in Covid ward

REUTERS 2021-01-23 10:18:27

British couple Elizabeth Kerr and Simon O’Brien had been planning to marry in June. Then Covid-19 struck. Both contracted the disease and were rushed to Milton Keynes University Hospital in the...

Alzheimer’s dementia: Are we really aware?

IMTIAZ AHMED 2021-01-22 14:10:44

Imagine an elderly grandmother who is repeatedly forgetting things. Her family dismisses it just as a sign of her getting old. But her memory is deteriorating and it is continuously being attributed t...

German scientists make paralysed mice walk again

REUTERS 2021-01-22 10:34:32

German researchers have enabled mice paralysed after spinal cord injuries to walk again, re-establishing a neural link hitherto considered irreparable in mammals by using a designer protein injected i...

US to join COVID vaccine push for poor nations: Fauci

Reuters 2021-01-21 20:21:45

The United States under President Joe Biden intends to join the COVAX vaccine facility that aims to deliver coronavirus vaccines to poor countries, his chief medical adviser, Anthony Fauci, told the W...

New COVID-19 variant defeats plasma treatment, may reduce vaccine efficacy

Reuters 2021-01-21 16:51:05

The new COVID-19 variant identified in South Africa can evade the antibodies that attack it in treatments using blood plasma from previously recovered patients, and may reduce the efficacy of the curr...

India's vaccine developer warns people with complications to avoid shot

-- 2021-01-19 16:45:02

India's homegrown vaccine developer Bharat Biotech has warned people with weaker immunity and other medical conditions that include allergies, fever, or a bleeding disorder to consult a doctor before...

Poorer nations can access Pfizer vaccine very soon, WHO hopes

-- 2021-01-18 23:03:31

The World Health Organization is in advanced negotiations with Pfizer about including the company’s COVID-19 vaccine in the agency’s portfolio of shots to be shared with poorer countries,...

India begins vaccination campaign, among world's largest

REUTERS 2021-01-16 12:53:13

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched on Saturday one of the world's largest vaccination campaigns, as part of efforts by the populous nation to bring the Covid-19 pandemic under control starti...

International Covid-19 vaccine poll shows higher mistrust of Russia, China shots

Reuters 2021-01-15 18:27:33

People across the world are generally likely to say yes to getting a COVID-19 vaccine, but would be more distrustful of shots made in China or Russia than those developed in Germany or the United Stat...

Pandemic 2nd year 'could even be tougher': WHO

Reuters 2021-01-14 10:03:02

The second year of the Covid-19 pandemic may be tougher than the first given how the new coronavirus is spreading, especially in the northern hemisphere as more infectious variants circulate, the Worl...

Public health experts for WHO reform in wake of pandemic

Reuters 2021-01-13 22:29:10

The role and remit of the World Health Organization (WHO) should be examined in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, and reforms will likely be needed to free it from politics and give it more independe...

Bangladeshi scientists sequence 304 genomes of Covid-19

-- 2021-01-13 21:00:39

Bangladesh has sequenced 304 genomes of Covid-19 so far and submitted to Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data (GISAID). Professor Dr Aftab Ali Shaikh, chairman of Bangladesh Council of Sci...

BioNTech 2021 Covid-19 vaccine output target raised to 2.0b doses

-- 2021-01-12 10:50:05

Pfizer Inc’s partner BioNTech SE has boosted the 2021 delivery target for their Covid-19 vaccine to 2 billion doses, up from 1.3 billion previously, as they add new production lines and as more...

Experts find challenges in achieving herd immunity with vaccine roll-out

-- 2021-01-11 21:35:53

The roll-out of coronavirus vaccines in many countries will not provide herd immunity from the global pandemic this year, several health experts said on Monday, citing limited access for poor countrie...

UK mobilises $1.0b funds to help vulnerable countries with vaccines

-- 2021-01-10 19:19:21

The UK has mobilised $1.0 billion from global donors to support vulnerable countries access Covid-19 vaccines to stop the virus' spread amid competition among countries to get the vaccine first. Bang...

Facebook partners with local organisations to provide mental health support

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-01-08 16:31:39

Facebook has partnered with local organisations in an effort to support and raise awareness on mental health in the country. People can now access support resources at National Institute of Mental He...

Moderna aiming to make up to 1 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine this year

Reuters 2021-01-07 16:36:38

Moderna Inc is on track to deliver between 600 million and 1.0 billion doses of its COVID-19 vaccine this year, Chief Executive Stephane Bancel said on Thursday. Bancel said Moderna had orders for 50...

India's 'abrupt' approval of COVAXIN draws growing criticism

REUTERS 2021-01-07 12:24:29

Criticism of India’s approval of a local Covid-19 vaccine without proof of its efficacy grew on Wednesday after news that a regulatory panel approved the shot just one day after asking the vacci...

Globe Biotech to produce vaccine candidate for clinical trial

-- 2021-01-06 16:36:09

Bangladeshi drugmaker Globe Biotech Limited is set to begin production of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate for clinical trial after getting the greenlight from the authorities. Globe received the licen...