September 23, 2020

Bold public spending needed for Covid-19 economic recovery: UNCTAD

Published in: The Business Standard Date: 23 September, 2020   The report said many developing countries would need international support to ensure the required fiscal space […]
September 22, 2020

Bangladesh’s Covid-19 death toll exceeds 5,000

Published in: The Business Standard Date: 22 September, 2020   Deaths from the novel coronavirus crossed 1,000 on June 10 Bangladesh reported 1,557 new Covid-19 cases […]
September 22, 2020

Covid-19: Bangladesh provides protective items to Nepal

Published in: The Business Standard Date: 22 September, 2020   Bangladesh has handed over health protective items to Nepal as a gesture of friendship and in […]
September 22, 2020

Work from home’: Johnson starts to shut down the UK again as Covid-19 spreads

Published in: The Business Standard Date: 22 September, 2020   “We will only be able to avoid it if our new measures work and our behaviour […]
September 22, 2020

Antigen-Based Testing: Public hospitals get the green light

Published in: The Daily Star Date: 22 Sep 2020 After months of bureaucratic tangle, the government has permitted antigen-based rapid testing for Covid-19 at the public […]
September 22, 2020

Brace yourself for second wave

Published in: The Daily Star Date: 22 Sep 2020 With infections and deaths from Covid-19 still far from over, a high-powered technical committee has warned that […]
September 21, 2020

Virus won’t derail Bangladesh’s rising potential growth

Published in: The Business Standard Date: 21 Sep 2020 A sustained pickup in Bangladesh’s growth potential before Covid-19 struck gave the economy more resilience to cope […]
September 21, 2020

Coronavirus risk can be reduced upto 54 percent by Vitamin D

Published in: The Business Standard Date: 21 September, 2020 Vitamin D suppresses excessive cytokine release that can present as a cytokine storm, a common cause of […]
September 21, 2020

COVID-19 Bangladesh situation reports (WHO) (21 September 2020)

On 14 September 2020, WHO published a guideline titled ‘Considerations for school-related public health measures in the context of COVID-19’ as an annex to previously published […]