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Antimicrobial agents may endanger all advances of modern medicine: Hasina
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday urged global leaders to promote and ensure rational antimicrobial agents in human health, livestock, fisheries and agricultural sectors as the silently emerging antimicrobial resistance (AMR) could endanger all the significant advances of modern medicine.
WHO urges governments to promote healthy food in public facilities
Public settings, such as schools, childcare centres, nursing homes, hospitals and correctional facilities and all other canteens of public institutions, can play a key role in ensuring people are provided with healthy food and helping prevent the 8 million annual deaths currently caused by unhealthy diets, says the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday.
$28 bln ACT project needed to end pandemic: WHO
An international coalition aiming to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic needs $28 billion, a bargain price for stopping the damage done by a virus that has run rampant for the past year, a senior UN World Health Organization (WHO) official said Tuesday.
WHO Chief urges donors to step-up funding to support poor countries to get vaccine
Mentioning the financing gap to provide COVID-19 vaccines for everyone, everywhere, is an urgent priority, World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday urged for stepping-up funding to support poorer countries.
3 crore vaccine doses to be given free: Cabinet Secretary
The government will initially provide three crore free doses of Covid-19 vaccine to the citizens of the country selecting the recipients following the protocol of the World Health Organisation (WHO).
Covid-19: How a 'warm vaccine' could help India tackle coronavirus
In India's boiling summers, temperatures can easily rise to 50C (122F).
Long-term symptoms of COVID-19 ‘really concerning’:WHO chief
With some COVID-19 patients reporting long-term symptoms, including damage to major organs, the World Health Organization (WHO) urged Governments to ensure they receive necessary care.
Covid-19: Bangladesh reports lowest daily deaths since May 28
Bangladesh on Friday reported the death of 17 Covid-19 patients in a day – the lowest since May 28, when the country reported 15 deaths.
Coronavirus: India records another 75,800 cases
Indian health authorities say the country has registered 75,829 confirmed coronaviruses cases in the past 24 hours, a day after crossing 100,000 fatalities.
‘O’ level exams begin Monday
‘O’ level examinations are scheduled to begin from Monday, three days after the ‘A’ level examinations kicked off.