Tag: Covid-19

If doctors at risk, all at risk

- Sohel Manzur -

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

Oxygen leak leaves 22 Covid-19 patients dead in India

- Times Report -

At least 22 Covid patients have died in a hospital in India after loosing oxygen supply due to a leak, reports BBC. The incident occurred on Wednesday while an oxygen storage tank was being refiled at the Zakir Hussain hospital in Nashik city. There was no oxygen flowing to ventilators for about

Covid-19: 95 more die with infection rate falling to 15.07pc

- Times Report -
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Bangladesh today registered 95 more Covid-related deaths in the last 24 hours until Wednesda that pushed up the total number of fatalities to 10,683. Besides, 4,280 people were found infected with the disease during the period as 28,408 samples were tested, the Directorate General of Health Services said in a handout. With

Uncertainty looms large over vaccination

- Apurbo Roy -

The future of vaccination program in Bangladesh looks bleak due to broken supplies of the injection vials as the lone supplier Serum Institute of India failed to ship the vaccines in time, officials said. Bangladesh government signed an agreement with the Serum Institute of India for procuring some 30 million dosesAstraZeneca,

Covid-19: 91 deaths with 4,559 fresh cases

- Times Report -

Bangladesh on Tuesday reported 91 more deaths from Covid-19b while 4,559 new cases in the last 24 hours till 8 am. The total death count now stands at 10,588, and the number of infections has reached at 7,27,780 across the country so far. This data was released in a press release issued

More scribes dying of Covid-19 in South Asia, PEC urges preparedness

- Nava Thakuria -

As more journalists are falling preys to Covid-19 in south Asian nations (India and Bangladesh), the Switzerland based media rights and safety body Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) urges for preparedness among media persons as they have to continue playing the role of corona warriors after the doctors, nurses, sanitation workers. Expressing

Reaching PM’s cash aid to target groups key challenge

- Sohel Manzur -

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,

Light vehicle workers demand govt support to survive lockdown

- Times Report -

Auto-rickshaw and light vehicle workers demanded direct food and financial support from government to survive the all-out lockdown that has been extended until April 28. In a joint statement, the President and Secretary of Bangladesh Auto-Rickshaw Light Vehicle Transport Workers Federation (BALTWF), Abul Hossain and Md Golam Faruk respectively, said lockdown