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World Health Organization announced on Saturday that it was discontinuing hydroxychloroquine and lopinavir/ritonavir arms for its Solidarity Trial, citing little or no reduction in the mortality of hospitalized COVID-19 patients. The WHO said the decision was in light of the evidence from the Solidarity Trial interim results. “These interim trial …

Variant of the genes responsible for the coronavirus disease was passed on to humans by the Neanderthals, which is very common in Bangladeshis, according to a new study. This piece of the genome, which spans six genes on Chromosome 3, has had a puzzling journey through human history, the study …

The capacity of 370 bed centre has been prepared for the treatment of COVID-19 patients at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University here. As part of expanding coronavirus treatment facilities, the 370-bed capacity centre has been formally inaugurated this morning, a BSMMU press release said today. BSMMU Vice Chancellor Prof Dr …

Coronavirus cases reached 11,409,805 globally with 533,684 deaths and more than 6.1 million recoveries as of Monday morning. According to the latest tally from Johns Hopkins University, the worst-hit US has registered 2,880,130 confirmed cases with 129,906 fatalities. Besides, Brazil, which has come up to the second position, recorded 64,867 …

A Mayan expert has claimed the Mayan elders were eight years off when they predicted the end of the world would happen on 21 December 2012 – turns out it will occur on 21 December 2020 instead. Seems a fitting end to the year. Pastor Paul Begley, who spoke of …

Coronavirus death toll in Bangladesh has reached  2,052 with the death of  55 more patients in a span of 24 hours. Besides, the health authorities detected 2,738  new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours after testing 13,988 samples , raising the total number of confirmed cases to 1,62,417. Additional …

Total 7,463 among 11,302 Covid-19 infected members of Bangladesh Police made full recovery until Saturday morning. Among the total case, 2,330 policemen are attached to Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) alone till date, said sources at the Police Headquarters. However, most of the recovered policemen joined their respective duty stations, the …

Bangladesh government has taken a big development programme in the new fiscal to upgrade the railway communication considering the public-friendly role of railways as a cheap and safe mode of communication across the country. According to a budget document, construction of 900km dual gauge double track and 1,581 km new …

Bangladeshi-American Youtube star Nabela Noor has urged the major brands to #Payup as millions of Bangladeshi garment workers are left starving during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic as a result of work order cancellation or suspension and delay in shipment. She made the urgent call on her verified Instagram page in …

Export-import activities between Bangladesh and India through the Benapole land port remained suspended since Wednesday morning. Export-import through the port stopped on March 22 due to Covid-19 outbreak. Then after several meetings between the port users of the two countries, the import of Indian products started again on June 7. …