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Industry Desk: The overall number of Covid-19 cases has surpassed 408 million, with the Omicron variant’s rapid spread across the globe.According to Johns Hopkins University, the total case count mounted to 408,442,142 while the death toll from the virus reached 5,802,000 Saturday morning.The United States has recorded 77,652,197 cases so…

Staff Correspondent: Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque has said that eight burn and plastic surgery hospitals are being set up in eight divisions of the country in the model of Sheikh Hasina National Burn and Plastic Surgery Institute.The Minister made the remarks at a discussion meeting at the…

Industry Desk: People with high blood pressure who take paracetamol on prescription could be increasing their risk of heart attacks and strokes, a study suggests.Doctors should think about the risks and benefits to patients taking it over many months, the University of Edinburgh researchers say.Taking the painkiller for headaches and…

8354 infected in 24hrs Staff Correspondent: Bangladesh yesterdayreported 8,354 fresh Covid-19 cases while the coronavirus claimed overnight 43 lives which is five-month high, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said in its routine daily statement.The official tally showed that the virus killed 28,670 people and infected 18,79,255 so far,…

Health Minister Staff Correspondent: All the people of the country will get the two doses of vaccines and the booster one against Covid-19 by December as per the target, said Health Minister Zahid Maleque yesterday.“Bangladesh has been successful in its vaccination campaign. Around 10 crore people in the country have…

Staff Correspondent: The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has warned that more people may get infected with the coronavirus due to sub-types of Omicron, the mostly contagious African variant of coronavirus. In this situation, everybody is requested to maintain health guidelines properly.Dr Md Nazmul Islam, the DGHS spokesperson and…

International Desk: A sub-variant of the highly contagious Omicron coronavirus strain, which some studies indicate could be even more infectious than the original version, has been detected in 57 countries, the WHO said Tuesday.The fast-spreading and heavily mutated Omicron variant has rapidly become the dominant variant worldwide since it was…

International Desk: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Monday that it has granted full approval to Moderna’s Covid-19 “Spikevax” vaccine, which had previously received an emergency use authorization in the United States.“The public can be assured that Spikevax meets the FDA’s high standards for safety, effectiveness and manufacturing…