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Security tightened at Dhaka gateways

With no improvement in sight, the government has instructed to impose restrictions on entering or leaving the capital in fear of further spreading of the infection across the country.Such measure has become highly essential amid the cyclone Amphan as movement of people is believed to be more rampant...

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Eid holidaymakers dodge law enforcers

Amid a lockdown and an oncoming super cyclone, Amphan in the Bay, thousands of people, heading home for Eid, continue leaving the capital Dhaka in the dead of night to avoid any trouble from security personnel.Earlier, following high-up directives, law enforcers set up check posts at almost every en...

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Potential of e-commerce may revive economy

Business leaders strongly feel that introduction of e-commerce or online business can rescue the current stagnation in economyduring the ongoing Covid-19 crisis.It is expected that the momentum of business could be regained to many extentsthis year as products worth Taka 16 thousand crore is about t...

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dhaka returns to usual look

Capital Dhaka gets back its own look as most of its roads, lanes, by-lanes, shops, shopping malls, kitchen markets and other places have been filled with people amid lockdown.The shops have reopened, as a result, it would be difficult to contain the virus from spreading far and wide before this Eid....

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Over 4,000 frontline fighters bearing the brunt

More than 4,000 frontline fighters including health workers, police, and journalists have contracted the novel coronavirus as they fought the highly contagious across the country since the beginning.Data from different sources complied by the Bangladesh Post shows members of law enforcement agencies...

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Govt firm to fight against Covid-19

The government has taken an initiative to test some 15,000 people for Covid-19 per day. Government has sufficient kits in stock to avail this service.Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque disclosed this information while addressing a program at the capital on Thursday.He also mentioned, &...

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Lockdown forces many patients to seek medical advice online

Taking advantage of remote healthcare through highspeed telecommunication on the internet, many medical practitioners have recently resorted to practicing telemedicine.Telemedicine allows healthcare professionals to evaluate, diagnose and treat patients from a distance using telecommunications techn...

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Virus transmission rates in ‘hotspots’ alarming

More and more people are found to be present in city thoroughfares than ever before despite strict warnings on not to come out of homes unless it is highly essential.The matter of coronavirus infections rates is found to be of serious concerns in many of the ‘hotspots’ where infection ra...

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Public labs still lagging behind in virus testing

Due to lack of skilled health technologists, the government laboratories are lagging behind in testing for coronavirus human specimens.Considering increasing trends in coronavirus infection across the country, the target of testing 10,000 specimens a day has been set. However, due to lack of require...

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Lack of coordination affects corona care

Even after two months of the corona outbreak in the country, the lack of coordination in prevention and medical management process of corona pandemic is still lingering.Experts believe the only way to effectively contain the spread of virus lies in having a fast, cheap and easily available testing f...

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Lightning may reach its peak in June-July

The incidents of lightning may reach its peak in the next two months (June-July) across the country, a meteorologist warns.Lightning reportedly left 79 people dead and 21 injured across Bangladesh from January to April this year with April accounting for the maximum 70 fatalities. Of the 70 deaths i...

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Crowd increases amid fear of virus

Amid a nation-wide lockdown to contain spread of COVID, the capital Dhaka is witnessing crowds and even gridlock, intensifying the process of transmitting the deadly virus to many others.The number of coronavirus infections is increasing day by day in the country as medical scientists have emphasize...

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Sample collection crisis deepens

Deepening the ongoing mismanagement in collection of sample for Covid-19 test, IEDCR would not collect samples from now on.It has been alleged that due to the lack of coordination and proper planning among concerned institutions, a state of disorder and  confusion now prevails across the countr...

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Experts see no good in market reopening

The reopening of shopping malls, markets, mosques and other business establishments, experts say, is a suicidal decision as these crowded places will be the breeding grounds for the rapid spread of the deadly novel coronavirus.Several experts opined that maintaining the 2 to 3 meter physical distanc...

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Dhaka getting back its usual look

The appearance of the capital city Dhaka has been turning to its very own and regular look as people in large number thronged the city streets.Recently, an announcement was made saying that shopping malls and markets are likely to be opened on May 10 on the occasion of Ramadan and Eid-ul-Fitr.Though...

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Lack of technologists for corona testing

A large number of medical technologists are urgently needed to conduct the Covid-19 mass testing needed across the country.Public health experts opined, ‘if we want to get the real figure on time, we have to test as many samples as possible.They also said, due to the lack of medical technologi...

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Media must play more responsible roles: Experts

Professionalism and ethical practice in news reporting, in particular, in relation to coronavirus outbreak, should be given highest importance, experts said.On Tuesday at the webinar entitled ‘Free flow of information during Pandemic’ organized by Daffodil International University (DIU),...

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People left helpless at corona test centres

The wretchedness of corona, identification tests are not ending in spite of the large numbers of testing lab and hotlines in the capital Dhaka.Despite all the efforts from the government, test results are coming in delay, and even many cases patients alleged that with several repeated attempt throug...

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50,000-100,000 Covid-19 cases likely in May

More than 50,000 to 100,000 people may contract the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) across Bangladesh by the end of this month, if the situations continue to grow worse, a senior official says citing public health experts’ reviews.Public health experts reviewed the coronavirus infection situation...

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Greater Pallabi, Old Dhaka highly risky

The city’s greater Pallabi region and many areas in old Dhaka have been identified as risky zones for covid-19 infections, according to the latest data released from the IEDCR.The government disease scrutinizing agency Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) statistics ...