Moudud Ahmmed Sujan

Three more people have tested positive for coronavirus bringing the country’s total to eight, according to Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control and Research.

Measures taken by the IEDCR following the detection of three coronavirus cases have lately raised some concerns.

A few minutes before 2:30pm yesterday, a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight from England’s Manchester landed at the Dhaka airport.

Bureaucratic tangles and lack of coordination among government bodies pose a major challenge in implementing the government plan to tackle a potential coronavirus outbreak.

The government has finalised an emergency preparedness plan to tackle any possible spread of coronavirus in the country.

The ministry of health has recommended a restriction on the visa-on-arrival service for citizens of Iran, South Korea, and Italy as the coronavirus has hit these countries.

With a 25-year illustrious career in the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector, Hasin Jahan was appointed the country director of WaterAid Bangladesh last year.

The government has started weighing its preparedness to tackle a potential novel coronavirus spread, as the virus has continued spreading to a number of countries Bangladesh has close communications with.

The 312 returnees from Chinese coronavirus hit city of Wuhan were yesterday released from the capital’s Ashkona Hajj Camp after a 14-day quarantine.

Just two weeks ago, Ahmed Pharmacy, a small medicine store at Farmgate, had less than five customers looking for face masks.

A plane carrying passengers from the Chinese city of Kunming landed at the capital’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 2:15pm yesterday. An aircraft of Turkish Airlines arrived from Istanbul around the same time.

Anu Saha, 32, has been travelling to the capital’s Bangbandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) from Sirajganj twice a month during the last two years to collect oral morphine for pain management for his dying mother Sebi Saha, 50, a patient of terminal cancer.

A total of 312 Bangladeshis, who were stranded in Coronavirus-hit Chinese city of Wuhan, landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka yesterday morning.

The number of people with hypertension and diabetes has increased alarmingly in the country and health experts attribute it to poor food habit and lack of exercise.

As soon as the clock hits six in the morning, Salma jumps into action. She hurries towards the bathroom either to take a shower or save some water in a container.

A government circular banning publication of any public hospital’s information without the consent from the authorities concerned has sparked criticisms with media professionals and experts considering the move as a blow to press freedom.

Despite a court directive to stop the over-the-counter sale of antibiotics, the health authorities have taken no concrete steps in this regard, raising the spectre of superbugs, which cause some seven lakh deaths globally per year.

Due to financial constraints, 18-year-old Anamika had no choice but suffer the effects of ventricular septal defect (VSD) -- a hole in the heart that’s present at birth.

Surgeons at the National Institute of Cardiovascular Disease (NICVD), for the first time, have successfully replaced the aortic valve in an elderly woman’s heart using a minimally invasive procedure.

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