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COVID-19 cases double over 6 weeks: WHO chief
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday that global COVID-19 cases had doubled over the past six weeks.
World Hepatitis Day today
Countries around the globe are observing the World Hepatitis Day on Tuesday.
Coronavirus: Bangladesh's death toll reaches 3,000
Bangladesh saw its officially confirmed coronavirus death tally hitting the 3,000-mark on Tuesday in the 21st week of infection.
Hepatitis B spread in under-5 children lowest in decades: WHO
World Health Organization (WHO) has said the global prevalence of potentially-deadly hepatitis B in children under age five dropped to under one per cent in 2019 down from five per cent in the pre-vaccine decades between the 1980s and early 2000s.
Coronavirus: Bangladesh sees 2,928 deaths in 130 days
The officially confirmed coronavirus death tally in Bangladesh went past 2,900 on Sunday – in just 130 days since the country reported its first Covid-19 fatality in mid-March.
Covid-19 in Bangladesh: Over 11 lakh tests conducted, 2.2 lakh cases detected
Health authorities in Bangladesh have so far conducted 11,01,480 RT-PCR tests including 10,446 in the last 24 hours that detected 2,520 new Covid-19 patients.
Covid-19: Bangladesh records 2,548 new cases, 35 more deaths
Bangladesh’s Covid-19 death tally reached 2,836 on Friday after the health authorities announced the death 35 more coronavirus patients in the last 24 hours until Friday morning.
No possibility to going back to ‘old normal’: WHO chief
Warning that there will be no return to “the old normal”, the World Health Organization (WHO) urged people everywhere to play a part in preventing further spread of Covid-19 as global cases have surpassed 15 million and nearly 620,000 deaths.
Covid-19: One in five people infected in Bangladesh
Covid-19 infection rate in Bangladesh on Thursday rose to 20.03 percent as health authorities detected 2,856 more cases after testing 12,398 samples in the past 24 hours.
Bangladesh calls for equitable, affordable access to Covid-19 vaccines
Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the UN Rabab Fatima has highlighted the need for making the Covid-19 vaccines available, affordable and distributing those equitably to all countries that need those most.