A leading government scientist said on 21 January that 80% of people had already been infected, and China’s CDC has repeatedly said over the past month that continued surveillance shows no new variants of COVID-19 have been found . Several countries put in place COVID testing requirements for Chinese travelers in the wake of their […]
Bangladesh has registered 13 new cases of Kovid-19 in a day, taking the total number of infections to 2,037,622. The death toll from the disease remained unchanged at 29,443 in the 24-hour period, according to the latest government data released on Monday. For a positivity rate of 0.58 per cent, 2,247 samples were tested across […]
Bangladesh has registered 10 new cases of Kovid-19 in a day, taking the total number of infections to 2,037,588. The death toll from the disease remained unchanged at 29,443 in the 24-hour period, according to the latest government data released on Friday. For a positivity rate of 0.75 per cent, 1,332 samples were tested across […]
Organizers denied Adarsh Prokshoni entry to the fair this year over allegations of dissent, leading the company’s CEO Mahbub Rahman to accuse the Bangla Academy of taking a stand against freedom of speech. Quoting a member of the Mela committee, he said the academy blocked its allocation because of three books: Fawaiz Ahmad Tayyeb’s Theory […]
Bangladesh has registered 13 new cases of Kovid-19 in a day, taking the total number of infections to 2,037,399. The death toll from the disease remained unchanged at 29,441, according to the latest government data released on Wednesday, as no new fatalities were recorded in the 24-hour count. For a positivity rate of 0.53 per […]
Ailiya, a former high school teacher, was devastated when her 85-year-old father died after displaying COVID-like symptoms as the virus swept through their hometown of the southeastern province of Jiangxi. While her father was never tested, Ailiya and her mother were both confirmed positive at the same time and believe that COVID was a factor […]
Bangladesh has reported 17 cases of COVID-19 in a day, taking the total number of infections to 2,037,267. The death toll from the disease remained unchanged at 29,440 in the 24-hour period, according to the latest government data released on Sunday. For a positivity rate of 0.84 per cent, 2,030 samples were tested across the […]
Bangladesh has reported 22 cases of COVID-19 in a day, taking the total number of infections to 2,037,230. The death toll from the disease remained unchanged at 29,440 in the 24-hour period, according to the latest government data released on Thursday. For a positivity rate of 0.46 per cent, 4,817 samples were tested across the […]
Bangladesh has reported 31 cases of COVID-19 in a day, taking the total number of infections to 2,037,187. The death toll from the disease remained unchanged at 29,440 in the 24-hour period, according to the latest government data released on Tuesday. For a positivity rate of 0.74 per cent, 4,189 samples were tested across the […]
For a positivity rate of 0.58 per cent, 2,254 samples were tested across the country. Dhaka, with six infections, reported the highest number of cases among the eight divisions. Another 83 people recovered from the disease nationwide, bringing the total number of recoveries to 1,987,686.
Doubts about official data British-based health data firm Airfinity this week described the estimates as “the exact opposite” of official figures, saying infections in China were likely to exceed a million a day, with more than 5,000 deaths per day. China’s National Health Authority reported 4,128 daily symptomatic COVID-19 infections on Saturday, and no deaths […]
Chen Ziming, a medical researcher at China’s Foshan University, said that even if China continues to define COVID deaths more broadly, the official data is still unlikely to reflect the situation on the ground, noting that How fast is the infection spreading. “The reported numbers of cases and deaths are only a very small fraction […]
