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The untimely devastating erosions of major rivers of the country have taken a serious turn in most areas alongside the banks in last few days. Heavy downpour and onrush of upstream water in the last few days have increased the water level in all major rivers including Padma, Jamuna and Teesta c...
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The government has started taking punitive actions against those who have been found to be corrupt involving the purchases of various materials for the health sector during the COVID-19 pandemic.As part of the punitive measures, the health ministry has already taken some departmental steps following...
At a cost of Tk 3,056 crore, the government is going to construct 600-kilometre dam in the country’s different coastal areas, including Khulna, Bagerhat and Satkhira for the safety of the people of those areas and their crops from the natural disasters, said sources.According to sources in the...
Amid the ongoing lockdown that hardly allows any business opportunities, the cash incentive to about 50 lakh families, said to be a gift from the Prime Minister ahead of the Eid festival, made the beneficiaries immensely happy.According to high ups in the government, Taka 1,250 crore are being distr...
Like in the past, the Sundarbans one again played the role of a natural shield to the coastal area protecting people and properties from the super cyclone Amphan.The most powerful cyclone to strike Bangladesh and eastern India in over a decade killed at least 82 people, leaving a trail of destructio...
Refugees in different Rohingya camps at Cox’s Bazar of Bangladesh have become concerned when many of them were found positive in coronavirus test.In this circumstance, health experts have also expressed their concern fearing that infection might spread among mass people of Cox’s Bazar as...
Though emergency measures underscore the gravity of the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the ban imposed by the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) on the entry and exit of people and transports to and from the capital Dhaka has become ludicrous due to its ineffectiveness.Although the ban had ...
As some anticipate worse yet to come for Bangladesh, the country is gradually unfolding all signs of a severe outbreak of COVID-19 for which the USA and Italy have to see the highest number of fatalities of coronavirus pandemic.Though a countywide lockdown has been imposed as the cautionary measures...
The prediction by the special committee formed by the government over the Covid-19 outbreak has started to become true as the number of infection by the deadly virus has been increasing in a large number day by day. Moreover, the number of deaths are also rising alarmingly.Earlier in April, the spec...
A bumper paddy production has brought smiles to farmers with the government heaving a sigh of relief with a hundred percent of the crop already harvested without facing any natural or other disaster.Earlier, the people as well as the government were tense over boro paddy harvesting due to Coronaviru...
Health experts fear that the decision to relax the lockdown may prove to be costly amid the increasing rates of coronavirus infection and deaths.They said that the pandemic COVID-19 is increasing day by day as people are not willing to obeyhealth directives and follow government restrictions on move...
Inconsistencies in the collection, testing and delivery of samples from suspected corona patients are not being addressed properly.Even worse, patients who never sent their samples for lab testing for covid-19, are said to be labelled in test results as positive.There are many instances of confusing...
The government has decided to send as many as Tk 1,200 crore directly to 5 million poor families who have been worst hit as the economy suffers in the aftermath of coronavirus outbreak, sources said.The direct payment will cover around 20 million people with a family getting Tk 2,400 a month.The fin...
Many people are seemingly showing very little interest in testing for possibly contracting coronavirus. Corona phobia denies such group of people from being concerned while another group of people completely conceal their suspicion of contracting the virus.Health experts warn that such trends in cor...
Treatment facilities for serious patients suffering from coronavirus infection is still far too less than it is actually required.Experts, closely monitoring the situation, blame the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) for their lack of planning and seriousness to act on time to have medic...
Triggering grave concern amid the daily spike of COVID-19 patients in the country, the lockdown imposed by the government seems relaxed in many places while in some places it is not effective at all.Amid the coronavirus outbreak, in the last two-three days, the number of people taking to the streets...
Although transportation, purchase and sales of agricultural produce and inputs have been kept out of the lockdown, the government decision is not being implemented at the field level. Despite government directives, there has been a stalemate in the marketing of agricultural goods due to barriers at ...
Bangladesh is heading towards a tougher time as the deadly coronavirus or COVID-19 is spreading quickly among the people through community transmission, said experts. They said the number of tests is much less compared to the number of spread of the virus and infections. Not only that those 19 labor...
Many people, suspected to have contracted coronavirus, are reluctant to seek medical care or even hospitalisation due to inadequate logistic supports for testing of coronavirus and for the lack of treatment facilities. Many such victims said that to become sure of whether he or she is infected or no...
Due to inadequate protective and safety gears medical practitioners in hospitals and diagnostic laboratories are facing difficulties in dealing with the current corona crisis. Doctors, nurses, security personnel and others involved in the fight against the deadly virus are working round the clock am...
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