pandemic
'Virus hunters' track threats to head off next pandemic
The coalition of self-described "virus hunters" has uncovered everything from an unusual tick-borne disease in Thailand to a surprise outbreak in Colombia of an infection spread by midges.
Mastering the art of handwashing: A step-by-step guide for adults and children
In the fast-paced world we live in, one simple but important habit is often overlooked — handwashing. The COVID-19 pandemic taught us that proper hand hygiene is a cornerstone in maintaining good health, preventing the spread of infections, and fostering a clean and vibrant lifestyle.
Are students still reeling from the pandemic?
Looking back, I realise the damage that those two years of home education had cost me across multiple domains, not just my mental health.
Djokovic set for US Open after vaccine mandate lifted
Novak Djokovic will be free to play in this year's US Open after the United States government confirmed it is lifting its Covid-19 vaccine mandate on international travelers.
The poor deserve a fighting chance
Mess residents’ struggle highlights vulnerability to high food prices
South Asia’s human capital is the resilience it needs
The Covid-19 pandemic pushed an additional 35 million people across South Asia into extreme poverty
1.7m students drop out in pandemic
Education in Bangladesh took a major hit from the Covid pandemic, which caused 17.62 lakh students to drop out of educational institutions, according to government data.
2022, the year of COVID recovery, didn’t go as expected
How much did we recover from the ravaging effects of COVID and what remnants of those dark pandemic days still linger on?
What’s a healthcare system without data? Simply incomplete.
An informed public health professional will argue that public health is half medical and half data. Without data, any health system is effectively blind. Data provides visibility into public health emergencies and non-emergencies alike. It saves lives. It tells us where the government needs to pour its funds and which areas to mobilise resources in. It helps identify gaps in healthcare and measure outcomes. Indeed, data is the eyes and ears of public health.
Local tourism in times of pandemic
The constant rise in cases and periodic lockdowns brought a kind of hiatus on Bangladesh’s tourism for more than a year. Fortunately, for the last two months or so, things started looking relatively better as number of cases started reducing and mass vaccination was underway.
Plague prevention costume to personal protective equipment: A brief history
Prior to Covid-19 Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) was not very well known to the general people. It appeared as a fairly unusual outfit to people when the Novel Coronavirus was first detected.
The New Normal through My Eyes: Celebrating World Photography Day 2021
Like every year, World Photography Day has been celebrated across the globe on 19 August. It has been taken up a notch by KrayonMag, which organised a two-week-long photography exhibition, “New Normal Through My Eyes”, from 1 September 2021.
The woes and misery of a pandemic examinee
From school-going children to students pursuing their masters, people from various age groups have been suffering the plight of being a pandemic examinee.
Chinmay Tumbe's 'The Age of Pandemics': Lessons from history in desperate times
Chinmay Tumbe’s The Age of Pandemics (1817-1920): How They Shaped India and the World (HarperCollins, 2020) is a timely read, touching upon three historic pandemics and the effects they had on the culture, economy, and politics of the Indian subcontinent.
The fight against Dengue
Dengue is mainly caused by female mosquitoes of the species Aedes aegypti, which is easily recognised by the white bands on its legs and body. Aedes mosquitoes prefers to breed in clean, stagnant water. Cleaning them up would reduce their breeding grounds.
Model Azim Uddula receives International Model Award by Integrity Magazine at Cannes
First it was with the recognition of the film, Rehana Maryam Noor, and then U.K.s Integrity Fashion Magazine accelerated the delight by giving out a unique award: “The International Model Award” to two globally recognised models; our very own Azim Uddula, and Joshua Moon from the U.S.A.
Who is really responsible for the coronavirus pandemic?
As the novel coronavirus known as Covid-19 spreads rapidly across the world, we now face another dimension of the “globalisation and its discontents” argument.
Pre-empting the next pandemic
Recent disease outbreaks, like Ebola and Zika, have demonstrated the need to anticipate pandemics and contain them before they emerge.
WB launches financial move for pandemics
The World Bank Group has launched Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility (PEF), a “fast-disbursing global financing mechanism” to protect the world against deadly pandemics.