A total of 5,333 policemen were infected with coronavirus across the country while performing duties as of Tuesday as the...
Simple But EffectiveAn Experimental Nanoparticle Covid-19 Test Researchers reveal their experimental test can detect the presence of COVID-19 RNA in a sample in 10 minutes, and in a way that does not require trained personnel to interpret.Coronavirus particles in grey on a red backgroundScientists have developed a test for COVID-19 that can visually detect the presence of the coronavirus in 10 minutes. The team suggest their test, after further assessment, could be a rapid, inexpensive and more simple diagnostic strategy,...
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) on Tuesday approved 10 projects , including two related to COVID-19 emergency response and preparedness, involving Tk 16,276 crore.The approval came from the 23rd Ecnec meeting of the current fiscal year held at the NEC conference room with Ecnec Chairperson and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair.The Prime Minister joined the meeting through videoconference from her official residence Ganobhaban.“We’ve placed 10 projects of seven ministries at the today’s meeting. The...
Health ministry says detention centres ‘high risk’ areas after spike in cases following series of raids during lockdownEmily Fishbein and...
Darren McCaffrey :On 27 December last year, a 43-year-old man from Bobigny, a suburb of Paris, turned up at a...
Moody’s Analytics has launched Coronavirus Pulse, a machine learning-enabled tool for gauging COVID-19 news sentiment. This tool allows market participants to search for real-time news coverage, see COVID-19-related news stories about a chosen financial institution, company or sector, and view whether each story has adverse, neutral, or positive sentiment.Coronavirus Pulse can be accessed free of charge from the Moody’s Coronavirus Effects web page, which offers research and views on the credit and economic impacts of the pandemic.“As the coronavirus crisis...
Gaza mosques, nursery schools reopen Mosques reopen for daily prayers and children return to nursery schools as restrictions ease in Gaza Strip.Kate Mayberry & Elizabeth Melimopoulos Mosques have reopened for daily prayers in the Gaza Strip. The besieged enclave has recorded 61 confirmed infection cases, and one death during the health crisis.Sweden’s top epidemiologist Anders Tegnell has said there was room for improvement in the country’s controversial softer approach to curbing the spread of the novel coronavirus.More than 6.4 million...
Russian President Vladimir Putin does not plan to take part in an online summit on a possible coronavirus vaccine being organised by the British government this week, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.Putin received an invitation to take part in the summit from British Prime Minister Boris Johnson last week, the Kremlin had said.Scheduled to take place on June 4, the Global Vaccine Summit 2020 is designed to mobilise resources needed to ensure universal availability of the vaccine against the...
Chattogram Bureau :S Alam Group, a noted industrial group of the port city, has donated medical equipments worth about Tk 3 crores to three hospitals in the city to help facilitate the covid-19 patients’ treatment. The valuable medical equipments handed over to Chattogram Medical College Hospital, Chattogram General Hospital and Maa O Shishu Hospital. These equipments include 6 ventilators, 8 high flow nazal conola. Besides, this group of company also donated one ventilator each to Dhaka Medical and Mugda Medical...
Scientists reveal 76 percent of critically ill trial participants treated with convalescent plasma are recovering, with almost half now discharged...
Health Desk :Countries around the world are scrambling to halt the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.As of June 4, more...