Covid in villages a seriously troubling news

It was thought for a while that Covid-19 was largely an exclusive urban disease.  There was this myth that it spared the poor, the villagers and the pious. Social media is full of such declarations and people go on air explaining the strange and “noble” discrimination of this virus. The first

Concern over Indian Delta variant

About 80 per cent of the Covid infections in the country are now caused by the Indian Delta variant. This strain’s infection capacity is higher than that of the United Kingdom and South Africa previously identified in Bangladesh. The government’s Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) and the

Bangladesh needs a plan which India didn’t have

India’s suffering is both visible and alarming. What corona has done to India is show that military might and space enterprises etc  are not enough when it comes to a health sector crisis.  Even the fact that the world does need India for a number of reasons and have helped,

Bangladesh sees 45 more Covid deaths with 1,285 new cases

Bangladesh has reported another 45 Coronavirus-related deaths with 1,285 fresh cases in the last 24 hours until Saturday morning amid concern after the detection of the first case of highly contagious Indian Covid-19 variant in the country. According to the new data released by The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS),

Indian Coronavirus strain detected in Bangladesh

Confirmed case of IndianCovid-19 variant strain has been detected in Bangladesh, Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) confirmed on Saturday. Chief scientific officer of IEDCR ASM Alamgir said the Indian strain was detected in a sample test at Evercare Hospital in the capital Dhaka and has been published on

Lessons to learn from India’s Covid

India’s disaster in managing the Covid and the resultant human suffering is a brutal lesson in reality checking. India not only looks unprepared but downright incompetent. For a country that has always claimed to be the best run in South Asia, it’s scary to see how hard one may fall