The US's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorised the emergency use of the Ebola drug remdesivir for treating the coronavirus. The authorisation means the anti-viral drug can now be used on people who are hospitalised with severe Covid-19. A recent clinical trial showed

DHAKA: The Directorate General of Drug Administration (DGDA) has given permission to test the capability of the corona detection kit invented by Gonoshasthaya Kendra.   Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) will test the capability of the corona kit of Gonoshasthaya

DHAKA: An elderly woman has died due to the negligence of United Hospital in the capital, alleged her son Dr Ziauddin Hyder, a senior health specialist of World Bank. While talking with journalists over phone from Cambodia, Dr Haydar claimed that his mother died because of unethical,

The country’s largest makeshift hospital at International Convention City Bashundhara (ICCB) in the capital will take treatment for COVID-19 to new heights as illness and death from the disease are soaring. As the construction work is going fast, the hospital may go into operation

Germany has authorised its first clinical test of a vaccine for the novel coronavirus, the country's regulatory body said on Wednesday, green-lighting trials on human volunteers for an RNA vaccine developed by German firm Biontech and US giant Pfizer. "The Paul-Ehrlich-Institut...

With coronavirus cases around the world now at over 2.4 million, scientists have been frantically working to develop a vaccine. This week, researchers at the University of Oxford have started human trials of a COVID-19 vaccine in the UK. Professor Adrian Hill, Director of the Jenner

DHAKA: Fifteen more people have died of coronavirus in Bangladesh, raising the total death toll in the country to 75, said Health Minister Zahid Maleque on Friday (April 17). Besides, 266 more people have been tested positive for coronavirus in the last 24 hours, pushing the total

The COVID-19 pandemic has hit over 22,000 healthcare workers across 52 countries and regions, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. According to its daily situation report, 22,073 COVID-19 cases among healthcare workers have been reported to the WHO as of Wednesday, April 8. The

A new study examining air samples from hospital wards with COVID-19 patients has found the virus can travel up to 13 feet (four meters) -- twice the distance current guidelines say people should leave between themselves in public. The preliminary results of the investigation by Chinese

The St. Petersburg Research Institute of Vaccines and Sera of the Federal Medical Biological Agency said on Tuesday its vaccine against the novel coronavirus infection has been included in the list of promising vaccines of the World Health Organization (WHO). So far, this is the only

DHAKA: Five more people have tested positive for coronavirus in the last 24 hours, raising the total number of coronavirus cases in Bangladesh to 61. No new death from Covid-19 was confirmed across the country in the last 24 hours keeping the total death toll at six. Health and

A team of Chinese scientists has isolated several antibodies that it says are "extremely effective" at blocking the ability of the new coronavirus to enter cells, which eventually could be helpful in treating or preventing COVID-19. There is currently no proven effective treatment for

DHAKA: Bashundhara Group, the country’s leading business conglomerate, will build a 5000-bed hospital in the capital for treating patients infected with coronavirus (COVID-19). Bashundhara Group Managing Director (MD) Sayem Sobhan Anvir placed the proposal to the Prime Minister

DHAKA: Four more people, including two doctors, have been infected with coronavirus in last 24 hours in Bangladesh. With this, the total number of confirmed cases in the country stands at 48, according to the government’s disease control agency. However, no patient died in the

Young people are not immune from coronavirus and must avoid socialising and communicating it to older, more vulnerable people, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. The choices made by the young can be "the difference between life and death for someone else", WHO

KUALA LUMPUR: Asian activists and civil society have called for collaboration, resources and support to end female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) across the region in a new consultation report into the practice.  Launched online, the consultation surveyed activists and civil

The first human trial of a vaccine to protect against pandemic coronavirus has started in the US. Four patients received the jab at the Kaiser Permanente research facility in Seattle, Washington. The vaccine cannot cause Covid-19 but contains a harmless genetic code copied from the

A clinical trial evaluating a vaccine designed to protect against the new coronavirus will begin Monday, according to a government official. The first participant in the trial will receive the experimental vaccine on Monday, the official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity

A team of researchers from Sunnybrook, McMaster University(opens in a new window) and the University of Toronto(opens in a new window) has isolated severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the agent responsible for the ongoing outbreak of COVID-19. Thanks to nimble

DHAKA: Health Minister Zahid Maleque said no new coronavirus-infected patients have been detected in the country. He said this while briefing on the latest situation at his secretariat office in Dhaka on Thursday (March 12). “The three coronavirus-infected patients are now more or