Covid-19 Bangladesh
COVID-19: Infection rate goes up by 5pc in a month
With 13 new cases recorded yesterday, the Covid-19 infection rate has shot up to 5.83 percent from last month’s 0.66.
What does the new Covid spike mean for Bangladesh?
As of now, the country has lost 29,476 lives to the pandemic, and experienced more than two million infections. Of course, after the highest number of deaths in June and August of 2021, daily deaths and infections have steadily declined. Despite that, there have been reports of deaths due to Covid throughout 2022 and 2023.
Covid BF.7 subvariant: What we know and what to do
The BF.7 is one of the concerning sub-variants of Omicron causing the current devastating wave of Covid-19 pandemic in China.
30pc people facing food scarcity
Around 30 percent people in Bangladesh are facing food scarcity though the country’s economy made a recovery from the pandemic-induced shocks, says a World Bank survey.
Covid-19: We can’t let our guard down yet
With fatalities declining and people getting used to living with the virus, adherence to social distancing protocols has been mostly absent from public life.
First chartered flight carrying Covid-stranded Bangladeshi students lands in China
The first chartered flight of China Eastern Airlines carrying Bangladeshi students enrolled in China, who got stuck due to the Covid-19 pandemic, landed in Kunming in southern Yunnan province today (September 26, 2022).
Tk 30cr lost in irregular purchase of Covid-19 medical equipment
Public hospitals in the capital purchased medical equipment at astronomical prices during the first four months of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, according to an audit report.
3 Covid-19 deaths, 1,280 cases reported in 24 hours
Three people died from Covid-19 in 24 hours till 8am today, said a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
1 dead, 873 Covid-19 cases reported in 24 hours
At least 873 new Covid-19 cases were recorded in 24 hours till 8am today, said a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
Rise in Covid-19 cases: 109 recorded in 24 hours
At least 109 new Covid-19 infections were recorded during 24 hours till 8am today, which took the total number of Covid cases to 19,54,115, according to a DGHS release.
Bangladesh 5th in world in Covid Recovery Index, top in South Asia
Bangladesh has advanced eight notches to rank 5th out of 121 countries across the globe on Nikkei’s Covid-19 Recovery Index.