Tag: covid-19
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COVID-19 study: Pandemic reduced global life expectancy by 1.6 years
This is one million more deaths than the World Health Organization had previously estimated. Excess deaths are calculated by comparing total deaths to what would have been expected if the pandemic had not occurred. Barbados, New Zealand and Antigua and Barbuda were among the countries with the lowest rates of excess deaths during the pandemic,…
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UNIDO adopts resolution initiated by Bangladesh on sustainable supply chains
This resolution will allow UNIDO to help countries and economies boost supply chain resilience and thus prepare them for any future situations. The proposal will also promote the necessary dialogue among relevant stakeholders and take concrete actions to ensure the sustainability, resilience and productivity of global and regional supply chains, with a particular emphasis on…
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WHO seeks details from China on outbreak of respiratory disease
It said China has systems in place to capture information on disease incidence trends and report that data to platforms such as the Global Influenza Surveillance and Response System. In recent days, media in cities such as Xian in the northwest have posted videos of hospitals crowded with parents and children waiting for tests. Some…
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Covid pandemic, economic crisis and car extravagance: A look at government officials in Bangladesh
Government service holders from Joint Secretary to senior officers will be entitled to the facility of government car. From 2018, the facility of car was made available from the Deputy Secretary level. The regulations were prepared in 2017. These were later modified and stated that Deputy Secretaries would be entitled to cars after three years…
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Inequalities in education sector have pushed progress back
Rasheda K Choudhary is the Executive Director of the Campaign for Popular Education (CAMPE) and former acting government advisor. CAMPE has been monitoring the education system of Bangladesh for the last two decades. The organization recently published a research report on the state of education post-Covid in the country. She speaks about the results of…
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America’s first lady Jill Biden tests positive for Covid-19: mild symptoms expected
Communications director Elizabeth Alexander said Jill Biden will stay at the couple’s home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, for the time being. The first lady had planned to start the new school year on Tuesday at Northern Virginia Community College, where she teaches English and writing. Because of her condition, Alexander said, she was working with…
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Canada detects first case of BA.2.86 coronavirus variant in a person in British Columbia
Canada has found its first case of a coronavirus infection from the highly mutated BA.2.86 variant of Omicron in a man from British Columbia who had not traveled outside the Pacific province, health officials said Tuesday. In a joint statement, the province’s top doctor Bonnie Henry and Health Minister Adrian Dix said the person is…
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Global Covid cases up by 63% in last 28 days: WHO
South Korea had the most cases (1,286,028) during the four-week period. It was followed by Australia (22,836), United Kingdom (21,866), Italy (19,777) and Singapore (18,125). South Korea recorded the highest number of deaths (328) from 24 July to 20 August. It was followed by Russia (166), Italy (165), Australia (148) and the Philippines (136). WHO…
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Kovid variant BA.2.86 found in new countries
tests 90 percent less Another Covid subvariant called EG.5 has already put some people in the US on high alert Pharmacy chains CVS CVS.N, Walgreens WBA.N and Rite Aid RAD.N told Reuters that sales of on-site molecular testing and home tests have increased in recent weeks. How much surveillance is needed to track the virus…
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Who will stop the decline of quality in primary education?
The news related to the decline in the number of primary schools and students over a period of two years is disappointing. According to the 2022 Annual Primary School Census (APSC) conducted by the Directorate of Primary Education, there were 133,002 public and private kindergarten primary schools in 2020. However, that number is set to…
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US CDC tracks down new lineage of virus that causes Covid
The World Health Organization (WHO) had earlier said in a post on X on Thursday that it had classified Ba.2.86 as a “variant under surveillance” because of the large number of mutations. The WHO said that, so far, only a few sequences of the variant have been reported from a handful of countries. Wesley Long,…
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WHO identifies new coronavirus ‘variant of interest’
WHO identifies new coronavirus ‘variant of interest’
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Australians are fighting for the right to work from home permanently
Emboldened by the lowest unemployment rate in half a century, Commonwealth Bank of Australia CBA.AX workers have taken the A$170 billion ($114 billion) lender to an industrial tribunal to challenge a directive to work from the office half the time. In April, the CEO of Australia’s third largest bank, National Australia Bank NAB.AX, ordered 500…
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WHO launches global network for infectious disease threat detection
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus praised the “ambitious” goals of the new network, saying it “could play an important role in health security”. “As was clearly shown to us during the COVID-19 pandemic, the world is stronger when it stands together to fight shared health threats,” he said. The IPSN, announced a day before the…
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Pandemic has lost crores of lives: WHO
Pandemic has lost crores of lives: WHO