The 164-member World Trade Organization (WTO) has implicitly rubber-stamped a widely-condemned policy of “vaccine apartheid” which has discriminated the world’s poorer nations, mostly in Africa and Asia, depriving them of any wide-ranging intellectual property rights. As Max Lawson, Co-Chair of the People’s Vaccine Alliance and Head of Inequality Policy at Oxfam,
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Govt hopes FY2023 will be final year of Covid pandemic
The government is contemplating the next fiscal year 2022-23 as its last year to overcome the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic. According to the budget document, the government will continue the initiatives taken to address COVID-19 and economic recovery in the coming fiscal year. However, as the context of the crisis changes,
Weathering a ‘Perfect Storm’ of Cascading Crises
Climate change, COVID-19, the war in Ukraine – these crises threaten to derail development for 1.7 billion of the world’s most vulnerable people. The international community must take swift, coordinated action now to put the SDGs back on track. In just two short years, a double whammy of external shocks has
Covid-19: Rise of the super rich & fall of the world’s poor
Pfizer launches ‘An Accord for a Healthier World’
Pfizer Inc. Wednesday launched ‘An Accord for a Healthier World’ to Improve Health Equity for 1.2 billion people lin 45 lower-income countries, a press release received in Dhaka said. This groundbreaking initiative aims to provide all of Pfizer’s patented, high-quality medicines and vaccines available in the U.S. or the European Union
Covid-19: Bangladesh reports 30 new cases, no death
Bangladesh registered 30 new Covid cases in 24 hours till Wednesday morning taking the country's total caseload to 1,953,328, health authorities said. With no new Covid deaths reported during the period, the total fatalities from the pandemic have so far remained unchanged at 29,130. The daily test positivity rate slightly dropped to
A month of no Covid-19 deaths
No Covid-19 death reported in 24 hours, 22 new cases
Bangladesh today reported zero Covid-19 death in the past 24 hours while it recorded 22 coronavirus positive cases during the period. "Bangladesh reported 0.44 percent Covid-19 positive cases as 5,001 samples were tested in the last 24 hours," Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) sources said. During the past 24 hours, the
Global Covid cases near 522 million
The overall number of Covid cases is now fast approaching 522 million amid a rise in new infections in parts of the world. According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total case count mounted to 521,911,280 while the death toll from the virus reached 6,265,362 Tuesday morning. The US has recorded 82,613,628
One fresh Covid-19 case diagnosed in Rangpur division
One fresh Covid-19 positive case was diagnosed after testing 189 new samples at the 0.53 percent positivity rate on Sunday in Rangpur division. Health officials said the only new patient was diagnosed in Nilphamari district. "With the diagnosis of the one fresh case, the total number of Covid-19 patients rose