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Plasma therapy limping amid limitations

Plasma therapy limping amid limitations

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...

WHO urges countries to ‘wake up,’ ‘take control’ of COVID-19

WHO urges countries to ‘wake up,’ ‘take control’ of COVID-19

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...

Almost a third of Covid-19 samples show mutation, but not worse disease: WHO

Almost a third of Covid-19 samples show mutation, but not worse disease: WHO

-- 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...

Coronavirus: 1,000 scientists, researchers for more trials to test antivirals, drugs

Coronavirus: 1,000 scientists, researchers for more trials to test antivirals, drugs

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...

Bangladesh now 8th in weekly increase in COVID-19 cases

Bangladesh now 8th in weekly increase in COVID-19 cases

-- 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...

Coronavirus immunity may be wider than tests suggest: Study

Coronavirus immunity may be wider than tests suggest: Study

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...

BioNTech, Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine shows potential in human trial

BioNTech, Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine shows potential in human trial

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...

US FDA releases guidance for COVID-19 vaccine approval

US FDA releases guidance for COVID-19 vaccine approval

-- 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...

Global COVID-19 prevention trial of hydroxychloroquine to resume

Global COVID-19 prevention trial of hydroxychloroquine to resume

-- 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...

India's first Covid-19 vaccine candidate approved for human trials

India's first Covid-19 vaccine candidate approved for human trials

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...

Another 'pandemic potential' flu virus found in China

Another 'pandemic potential' flu virus found in China

-- 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...

Pandemic 'is not even close to being over': WHO chief

Pandemic 'is not even close to being over': WHO chief

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...

Experts attribute immune factor to higher COVID-19 recovery rate in BD

Experts attribute immune factor to higher COVID-19 recovery rate in BD

-- 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...

Gilead prices remdesivir at $390 per vial in US

Gilead prices remdesivir at $390 per vial in US

-- 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,...

‘Declare COVID-19 vaccine a global common good’

‘Declare COVID-19 vaccine a global common good’

-- 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...

Chinese firm says coronavirus vaccine candidate shows promise in human test

Chinese firm says coronavirus vaccine candidate shows promise in human test

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...

What doctors have learnt about fighting Covid-19

What doctors have learnt about fighting Covid-19

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...

Global Covid-19 fundraising meeting raises $6.9b, leaders want vaccine for all

Global Covid-19 fundraising meeting raises $6.9b, leaders want vaccine for all

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...

Global coronavirus cases exceed 10 million

Global coronavirus cases exceed 10 million

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...

Doctors around world see hope in new coronavirus treatments

Doctors around world see hope in new coronavirus treatments

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...

Scientists just beginning to understand the many health problems caused by Covid-19

Scientists just beginning to understand the many health problems caused by Covid-19

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...

Covid-R value in ‘dangerous’ zone

Covid-R value in ‘dangerous’ zone

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...

AstraZeneca, Moderna ahead in COVID-19 vaccine race: WHO

AstraZeneca, Moderna ahead in COVID-19 vaccine race: WHO

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....

Who would be the first to get a COVID-19 vaccine?

Who would be the first to get a COVID-19 vaccine?

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...

WHO warns of oxygen shortage as Covid cases set to top 10 million

WHO warns of oxygen shortage as Covid cases set to top 10 million

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...

Ultraviolet light reduces coronavirus transmission indoors: Research

Ultraviolet light reduces coronavirus transmission indoors: Research

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...

COVID-19 vaccine trial in pigs shows promise with two shots

COVID-19 vaccine trial in pigs shows promise with two shots

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...

Coronavirus: Cases surge as many countries lift lockdowns

Coronavirus: Cases surge as many countries lift lockdowns

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...

UNICEF for urgent steps to safeguard 600m children in South Asia

UNICEF for urgent steps to safeguard 600m children in South Asia

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...

Sanofi eyes approval of Covid-19 vaccine by first half of 2021

Sanofi eyes approval of Covid-19 vaccine by first half of 2021

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...