Is there light at the end of this COVID-19 darkness? In a world reeling from the unexpected and unrelenting hit from COVID-19, this is an apt question.

It is only natural to expect that healthcare professionals will live up to the commitments they had subscribed to when they signed up to be a health professional. However, appreciation and recognition of their work could do much to boost the morale of this group.

According to newspaper reports, 10 children have already died in the CHT since the outbreak began on February 26, when the first death was reported. Another 300 children have been infected.

Beginning in Decem-ber in China’s Wuhan City, the highly infectious COVID-19 has crossed boundaries and oceans with supersonic speed.

The effects of Covid-19 on the national economies and the global economy are going to be unprecedented.

Every year, visitors arrive in Italy in droves to enjoy its sun and fun, good food and music, its rich cultural heritage and amazing landscape. The country is vibrant and is never dull. Visitors spend huge sums of money and get good value for what they spend. They come to enjoy what Italy has to offer.

Although the number of infection or deaths in Bangladesh is much less compared to other affected countries, the economy is most likely to reach a devastating stage, rendering many jobless.

Never before in the known history of human civilisation has the state agreed to pay the wages of those at risk of losing their jobs. Never before have they ordered social distancing.

Nurses and mid-wives are central to the delivery of quality primary health services for all.

The threat of another pandemic subsequent to the 1918 Influenza pandemic had long been predicted by scientists, epidemiologists, and virologists. But few countries, or possibly none, had forecasted the economic and commercial effects of a pandemic, and therefore, few have contingencies in place to manage a pandemic.

Covid-19’s conquest to spread, infect, and then to claim human lives around the world has sparked many discussions on its current and future trajectory and impacts.

In a book on influenza published last year, Robert G. Webster, a virologist at Otago University in New Zealand, had a terrifyingly prescient chapter about pandemics.

To borrow a famous phrase from history, a spectre is haunting the world—the spectre of Covid-19.

I work as a consultant anaesthetist and intensivist in a small district general hospital in north-west England.

Plagues, pandemics, floods and blights, we were once taught, are vehicles of retribution, weeding out those who have not prepared for divine wrath—the greedy, reckless, and arrogant.

Coronavirus (the virus causing the disease Covid-19) has two universal problems: no vaccine or drug has been developed as yet, and the diagnostic tools are scarce.

The Covid-19 pandemic has touched almost every territory of the world and terrified its 8 billion population.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has struck a bold and inspirational note, as the leader of the nation must, in her impromptu remarks on March 29 while receiving contributions to the Prime Minister’s Relief Fund to support the fight against the covid-19 pandemic.

The coronavirus disease (Covid-19) that started in China has now become a global health crisis which, in turn, has caused an economic crisis.

These are extraordinary times and the UK government has announced an extraordinary set of economic policies in response to them.