The coronavirus pandemic has already taken a severe turn in Bangladesh, with both the daily infection and death cases hitting new high every day. The total number of deaths has already gone past 10,000 and the rate of infection has risen to more than 21 per cent. Thousands of new
Editorial
Taming Hefazat is a major issue but so is taming the virus
Reaching PM’s cash aid to target groups key challenge
Many people of Bangladesh have become jobless, thanks to nationwide lockdown imposed to control the spread of the second wave of Covid-19. Against this backdrop, the government has yet again, like last year, declared cash aid for 35 lakh jobless, poor and low-income people hit hardest by the pandemic. Moreover,
Rising poverty amid pandemic
Proper healthcare management key to handle pandemic
Protecting Haor crop crucial
Movement Pass: The more laws, the more flaws
Why go for building new Covid hospitals?
Perhaps, the setting up of the Bashundhara Covid-19 temporary hospital on a sudden decision and shuttering the same within only a few months is one of the glaring examples of poor planning of Covid-19 management by the health department of Bangladesh. During early months of the virus outbreak in the