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The coronavirus pandemic is changing the pattern of health seeking behaviours of pregnant women in the Asia Pacific region and this can result in "increases" in maternal mortality, UNFPA Regional Director for Asia-Pacific Bjorn Andersson has said.He suggested “a multilateral approach...
A Swedish epidemiologist has said the government needs to take action and explain issues ‘scientifically’ following the ban on Bangladeshis entry to Italy after passengers in a flight found Covid19 positive amid pandemic.“Bangladesh is not alone. Bangladesh was in the list of 13 co...
When Bangladesh announced a contribution of $50,000 to a European Commission meeting for supporting the development of Covid-19 vaccines, the government attached a tagline - equity, fairness and national ownership.The Covid19 pandemic has hit every corner of the world with the consequences ranging f...
When Bangladesh announced to go for general holidays on March 24, the number of coronavirus cases was only 39 and there was no official call for the ‘community transmission’ of the virus.Still the government has decided to enforce a lockdown closing all schools, businesses and offices. T...
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The 10th Asia Pacific Conference on Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights (APCRSHR10) began on Monday virtually with a call to give special focus on SRHR related issues to achieve the SDGs.“Covid19 has exacerbated all the barriers related to the sexual and reproductive health and rights (S...
The ruling Awami League’s research wing the Centre for Research and Information (CRI) has showed the ways of creating jobs quickly in Bangladesh to turn the tide of the pandemic loss.It estimates that the new number of unemployed in Bangladesh, due to the COVID-19 job loss, stands at a doublin...
The number of healthcare workers getting infected with coronavirus is increasing everyday in Bangladesh, leaving the frontline fighters in extreme anxiety.So far 50 doctors have died of Covid19 or related symptoms. Nearly 3,500 healthcare workers including doctors, nurses, technicians and others eng...
Bangladesh believes in peace and stability in the region as elsewhere in the world and there is no question of taking sides in a dispute between friends.Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen made those comments to Bangladesh Post, when asked, as China’s announcement to allow 97 percent products d...
The social stigma related incidents associated with Covid-19 are on the rise in Bangladesh despite the fact that such practices hamper the response to the disease.The Bangladesh Peace Observatory (BPO) in its weekly update said the number of reported incidents in which Covid-19 patients or patients ...
People have been asked not to use dexamethasone for the treatment of Covid-19 patients without a doctor’s advice as this drug can turn out to be counterproductive if used indiscriminately. “We use steroid (dexamethasone and others) only when it’s indicated in serious patients ...
Bangladesh first needs to know the rate of coronavirus infection in the ‘community’ before taking any decisions, said Country Director of the Population Council Dr Ubaidur Rob.“Still we don’t know the rate of infection and the pattern of its spread. When garments reopened som...
A structural change has been brought in this year’s budget in terms of setting priorities of the government due to pandemic.Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal, while unveiling the Tk 5.68 trillion outlay, made a slight deviation from the traditional budget for what he said “effectively&r...
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen, who is also an economist and the proponent of economic diplomacy in Bangladesh, has suggested that the government focus on ‘job creation’ in the upcoming budget due to the coronavirus pandemic.He also proposed structural reforms in the tax system to im...
Heads of member states of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) including Bangladesh have pledged to fight off the coronavirus pandemic together using the 23 years old platform of seven littoral countries.They issued separate messages ahead of t...
The health ministry is going to get an increased allocation in the upcoming budget due to coronavirus pandemic, despite transparency concerns.It will be 5 percent of the total outlay, bigger than the current fiscal, according to the budget document.Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal recently placed ...
Doctors have recommended that Covid-19 patients can join work after 10 days of becoming symptoms free – no matter whether coronavirus negative or not as the person is no longer infectious.Patients are being released from hospitals after three days of not having any symptoms such as fever, coug...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has recommended mothers with suspected or confirmed Covid-19 to initiate and continue breastfeeding.The UN health agency also said that mother and infant should be enabled to remain together while rooming-in throughout the day and night and practise skin-to-skin c...
The World Health Organisation has recommended against using antivirals including much-talked-about Remdesivir for the treatment of the Covid-19.In its latest clinical guidelines, the UN health agency also suggested not to use plasma therapy as “treatment option outside of the context of clinic...
The United Nations will honour two fallen peacekeepers from Bangladesh at its ceremony at the headquarters in New York on Friday marking the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers.Secretary-General António Guterres will lay a wreath to honour all UN peacekeepers who have lost their ...
Bangladesh has reached a grim milestone of the coronavirus as the number of confirmed cases surpassed 40,000 mark and deaths 550.Experts call for ‘curfew-style lockdown’ at least for two weeks to control the situation as the government is relaxing its ‘general holidays’ from ...
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