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Mental Health During Coronavirus: Experts for avoiding overuse of gadgets
People holed up at their homes for weeks during the general holiday to prevent the spread of coronavirus, exposed to mental health issues because of their over-dependence on gadgets and electronic devices, experts say.
Central Police Hospital physicians relatively less affected by virus
Though Rajarbagh Central Police Hospital (CPH) has been providing treatment to more than four times COVID-19 infected patients beyond its capacity, the number of infected physicians of the hospital is very low due to strict protective measures.
How corona battle adds to woes of non-corona patients
As the country’s healthcare system has turned its main focus on breaking the tide of coronavirus pandemic, many patients with non-Covid health problems, especially those who have comorbidities, are passing through a harrowing time being ‘deprived of’ urgent medical attention they need.
General holidays likely to be extended again until Eid
As coronavirus cases continues to soar in Bangladesh, the government is likely to extend the ongoing general holidays again until the Eid-ul-Fitr vacation in a bid to prevent the transmission of the deadly coronavirus.
Corona shutdown: Khulna farmers in distress with bumper yield of watermelon
Despite bumper production of watermelon in Dakope upazila of Khulna, frustration has gripped the growers as they are fearing huge losses for lack of buyers and low prices due to coronavirus outbreak.
Farmers said watermelons are rotting in the fields as there is lack of customers at the market due to the restriction in movement imposed to stop the transmission of the deadly virus.
Huge watermelons are likely to be damaged in the fields as those are not being harvested for lack of buyers, they said.
Ongoing power transmission projects hit snag for corona shutdown
Field-level work on 25 ongoing power transmission projects remained suspended since the coronavirus outbreak in China, hitting hard the power sector development.
According to official sources, most of these projects were either awarded to Chinese contractors or their equipment were supposed to come largely from China.
“Neither the Chinese workers, nor the equipment are coming from China since the pandemic hit Wuhan,” said a top official at the Power Grid Company of Bangladesh (PGCB).
He said many Chinese companies are working as subcontractors as well in Bangladesh’s power transmission sector.
The PGCB official said although coronavirus situation in China has improved, Chinese officials and workers, especially the technicians, are not coming back as the situation in Bangladesh is deteriorating. “As a result, we had to suspend the field-level works on the transmission projects,” he added.
Despite pandemic, health sector set to receive ‘only Tk 800cr’ allocation hike
Bangladesh’s health sector is likely to witness an increased amount of only Tk 800 crore, the lowest monetary allocation in terms of increase, in the upcoming annual development programme (ADP) for the 2020-21 fiscal year, official sources said.
Kushtia boro farmers eye bumper yield in corona time
Farmers in Kushtia are expecting a bumper production of Boro paddy this season as they brought vast tracts of land under cultivation exceeding the target despite labour crisis due to shutdown enforced following coronavirus pandemic.
This time, farmers cultivated Boro paddy exceeding the target in six upazilas of the district and harvesting has already started, said agriculture officials in the district.
According to Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), boro paddy was cultivated on 33,275 hectares of land in Kushtia in the current season with a production target of 1,99,650 metric tonnes.
Asymptomatic patients are ‘corona bombs’: Experts
As the government is now focusing on detecting those showing symptoms of Covid-19 to isolate them from others amid limited testing capacity in the country, health experts think silent spreaders have become a bigger threat to the efforts to stop the virus.
The growing popularity of Zoom in Bangladesh during COVID-19
Zoom, currently the world’s most popular video calling service, has become a household name in many parts of the globe including Bangladesh during the pandemic of COVID-19.