Tag Archives: COVID-19

A new study in South Korea has revealed that children between 10 and 19 years can transmit Covid-19 within a household just as much as adults. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention journal Emerging Infectious Diseases published the research, reports Xinhua. Researchers from the South Korea Centers for …

Covid-19 is easily the most severe global health emergency ever declared by the World Health Organization (WHO), its leader has said. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he would reconvene the WHO’s emergency committee this week for a review. There have been five other global health emergencies: Ebola (two outbreaks), Zika, …

Bangladesh’s officially confirmed coronavirus cases rose to 229,185 on Tuesday after the health authorities announced detection of 2,960 new patients. “In the last 24 hours, 35 patients have died, pushing up the death tally to 3,000,” Additional Director General of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Prof Dr Nasima Sultana …

Bangladesh’s officially confirmed coronavirus cases rose to 2,26,225 on Monday after the health authorities announced the detection of 2,772  new patients. “In the last 24 hours, 37 patients have died, pushing up the death tally to 2,965,” Additional Director General of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Prof Dr …

Coronavirus (Covid-19) infection rate in Bangladesh on Thursday rose to 20.03 percent as health authorities detected 2,856 more cases after testing 12,398 samples in the past  24 hours. Against 10,79,007 tests, 2,16,110 people have been found positive for the virus since March 8, which means one in every five people …

The number of children worldwide getting life-saving vaccinations has declined this year largely because of the coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organization and UNICEF warned on Wednesday. The first four months of 2020 saw a “substantial drop” in the completion of the three-dose jab that protects against diphtheria, tetanus and …

There is no adequate evidence of the transmission of COVID-19 from pregnant women infected with the virus to their fetuses, a Chinese medical expert has said. The severity of the illness of pregnant COVID-19 patients is similar to that of other patients and the disease is not more likely to develop …

Around 25,000 new coronavirus cases have been detected in India on Thursday and its transmission rate is increasing for the first time since March. India’s health ministry said the COVID-19 death toll has risen to 21,129. The new cases bring the total in the world’s third worst-affected country to 767,296. …

Since the start of pandemic, Five months have passed. During this period, Coronavirus killed more than 130,000 Americans, the long-simmering tensions between President Donald Trump and the health experts who staff his government has escalated from private griping to shrugging disagreement to now open dispute. The result, people at those …

Confirmed cases of coronavirus across the world crossed 12,012,125 while the death toll from Covid-19 climbed to 548,896 as of Thursday morning, according to the Centre for System Science and Engineering of Johns Hopkins University. As per JHU data, Brazil has grabbed the second position after the US with 1,713,160 …