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Bangladesh reports one Covid-19 death, 73 positive cases

Staff Reporter - February 22, 2024 🔲 7:54 PM

Health Desk Bangladesh today recorded one Covid-19 death while it reported 73 Coronavirus positive cases. "Bangladesh reported 10.18 percent Covid-19 positive cases as 717 samples were tested during...

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Bangkok says work from home as pollution blankets city

Staff Reporter - February 15, 2024 🔲 3:45 PM

Health Desk Bangkok city employees have been told to work from home to avoid harmful air pollution, as a layer of noxious haze blanketed the...

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US officials confirm rare human case of bubonic plague

Staff Reporter - February 14, 2024 🔲 6:18 PM

Health Desk Officials in the US state of Oregon have said they are dealing with a rare human case of bubonic plague that was likely...

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Nearly 60% of US population had Covid by February

By February of this year, 58 percent of the US population -- more than 190 million people -- had been infected with Covid, according...

Beijing Covid spike prompts mass testing, panic buying

Fears of a hard Covid lockdown sparked panic buying in Beijing as long queues formed on Monday in a large central district for mass...

Only 29% hospitalised Covid patients fully well one year on: study

Not even one in four people have completely recovered from Covid a full year after being hospitalized with the disease, a UK study indicated...

WHO ‘strongly recommends’ Pfizer’s Covid pill

The World Health Organization said Friday it "strongly recommended" Pfizer's Covid-19 antiviral pill Paxlovid for patients with milder forms of the disease who were...

More than one million African children protected by first malaria vaccine

More than a million children in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi have now received at least one dose of the first anti-malaria vaccine, the World...

VARD provides eye services to 8 lakh patients With help of doctors & logistical support from developed countries

Sohag Miazi The Voluntary Association for Rural Development (VARD) has so far provided free eye surgery to 8 lakh patients in the country. Emranul Haque...

Meningitis vaccine protects against gonorrhoea: studies

An existing meningitis vaccine offers protection against gonorrhoea, three studies said on Thursday, pointing towards a new way to fight the spread of the...