Mass vaccination leading to herd immunity is our best chance
In a recent cross-sectional serosurvey conducted by icddr,b, antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 (widely known as coronavirus) from blood samples were found in 71 percent and 55 percent of Dhaka and Chattogram city-dwellers respectively (The Daily Star, June 23).
8 July 2021, 18:00 PM
How will the reopening of schools affect the pandemic?
Children are less commonly infected by Covid-19. When infected, they are less symptomatic and the development of the disease in their systems are less severe than adults infected with Covid-19. Symptoms, if present, are also nonspecific and resemble other non-Covid respiratory viruses, which creates a diagnostic dilemma.
29 September 2020, 18:00 PM