DHAKA: Bashundhara Group, the country’s leading business conglomerate, will build a 5000-bed hospital in the capital for treating patients infected with coronavirus (COVID-19). Bashundhara Group Managing Director (MD) Sayem Sobhan Anvir placed the proposal to the Prime Minister

DHAKA: Four more people, including two doctors, have been infected with coronavirus in last 24 hours in Bangladesh. With this, the total number of confirmed cases in the country stands at 48, according to the government’s disease control agency. However, no patient died in the

Young people are not immune from coronavirus and must avoid socialising and communicating it to older, more vulnerable people, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. The choices made by the young can be "the difference between life and death for someone else", WHO

KUALA LUMPUR: Asian activists and civil society have called for collaboration, resources and support to end female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) across the region in a new consultation report into the practice.  Launched online, the consultation surveyed activists and civil

The first human trial of a vaccine to protect against pandemic coronavirus has started in the US. Four patients received the jab at the Kaiser Permanente research facility in Seattle, Washington. The vaccine cannot cause Covid-19 but contains a harmless genetic code copied from the

A clinical trial evaluating a vaccine designed to protect against the new coronavirus will begin Monday, according to a government official. The first participant in the trial will receive the experimental vaccine on Monday, the official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity

A team of researchers from Sunnybrook, McMaster University(opens in a new window) and the University of Toronto(opens in a new window) has isolated severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the agent responsible for the ongoing outbreak of COVID-19. Thanks to nimble

DHAKA: Health Minister Zahid Maleque said no new coronavirus-infected patients have been detected in the country. He said this while briefing on the latest situation at his secretariat office in Dhaka on Thursday (March 12). “The three coronavirus-infected patients are now more or

KHULNA: A suspected Coronavirus-infected patient admitted to Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH) has been released from the hospital. The concerned doctors said that student was not infected with the lethal Coronavirus. The Nepalese is a student of Khulna University.  He entered

DHAKA: The Institute of Epidemiology, Diseases Control and Research (IEDCR) said no more infection from the coronavirus was reported in the country on Monday (March 9). Professor Meerjady Sabrina Flora, director of the IEDCR, made the development at a media briefing on the latest

DHAKA: Bangladesh government has received 500 ‘Real-time PCR kits’ from the Chinese government to detect coronavirus. Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming handed over the kits to Bangladesh’s Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque at the Secretariat in Dhaka on

DHAKA: A 39-year-old Bangladeshi national in the United Arab Emirates has been infected with the novel coronavirus.  Two more residents of the UAE, including the Bangladeshi national, have tested positive for coronavirus, bringing the total number of people diagnosed with the virus in

Two Japanese passengers who contracted the Covid-19 virus onboard a cruise ship quarantined in Japan have died. One passenger died from Covid-19, while the other died from pneumonia, said local reports. Both were in their 80s and had underlying health conditions. They had already

DHAKA: One of the five Bangladesh citizens, infected with coronavirus in Singapore, is now in a “critical state”, said Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Wednesday (Feb 19). Medicine given to the 39 year-old person is not responding, he said. Singapore Minister for Foreign

Health officials in China have published the first details of more than 70,000 cases of Covid-19, in the biggest study since the outbreak began. Data from the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CCDC) found that more than 80% of the cases have been mild with the sick and

A United States citizen has died from the new coronavirus in Wuhan, China, in what appeared to be the first death of an American from the outbreak. Few details about the American, who died on Thursday, were immediately available. The person was around 60 years old, according to the

DHAKA: Health Minister Zahid Maleque said the government will not allow any more Bangladeshis to return home from China. He said: “Anyone wishing to come from China is discouraged. Those who have gone to China on vacation are not being issued visas for the time being.” The

At least 10 people on board a cruise ship docked in the Japanese port of Yokohama have tested positive for coronavirus, health authorities said. Almost 300 of the 3,700 people on the Diamond Princess have been tested so far. The number of infected could rise as testing continues.

Doctors in Thailand say they have successfully treated one Wuhan coronavirus patient with a combination of antiviral drugs, according to a briefing on Sunday from the Ministry of Health. Dr.Kriangsak Atipornwanich, a doctor at Rajavithi Hospital in Bangkok, said he treated a

Doctors in Thailand say they have successfully treated one Wuhan coronavirus patient with a combination of antiviral drugs, according to a briefing on Sunday from the Ministry of Health. Dr.Kriangsak Atipornwanich, a doctor at Rajavithi Hospital in Bangkok, said he treated a