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  Proper lockdown of risky areas may save tribulation

  | Updated at 12:00am on April 08, 2020

  AS THE number of people having been infected with the novel coronavirus and died of COVID-19 increasing day by day, local lockdown, where required, appears...

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  Unacceptable incoordination in COVID-19 mitigation efforts

  | Updated at 12:00am on April 08, 2020

  THE statement of the health minister, Zahid Maleque, who heads the national committee on coronavirus, that he has not been aware of decisions that various...

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  Are face masks effective against coronavirus disease?

  by Fanila Shahzad and Talat Nasim | Updated at 12:00am on April 07, 2020

  THE new Coronavirus now labelled as COVID-19 has become a global pandemic affecting 201 countries. In order to slow down the spread of the virus,...

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  Can the government turn a chaotic start into a good end? 

  by M Adil Khan | Updated at 12:00am on April 07, 2020

  CONTRARY to the common belief that the Bangladesh government has been least prepared and that its responses to COVID-19 have been ad hoc and impulsive,...

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  Exemplary punishment needed to stop relief materials theft

  | Updated at 12:00am on April 07, 2020

  A NUMBER of leaders and activists of the ruling Awami League misappropriating and stealing rice allocated for distribution among the poor during the on-going public...

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  Exclusionary stimulus package failed the poor

  | Updated at 12:00am on April 07, 2020

  THE government on Sunday announced four new stimulus packages of Tk 67,750 crore to overcome the possible economic shock from the public holiday declared, starting...

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  Risk of social isolation and greater health crisis

  by Taslima Akhter | Updated at 12:00am on April 06, 2020

  I  feel compelled, I feel obliged to share the insufferable experience of two friends from the past weeks — the lived experience of fear of...

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  More tests decrease chance for further COVID-19 transmission

  | Updated at 12:00am on April 06, 2020

  THE World Health Organisation has emphasised aggressive testing, isolation of the infected and identifying transmission sources as the three important preventive steps against COVID-19, but...

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  A govt silence of danger and too deadly an indecisiveness

  | Updated at 12:00am on April 06, 2020

  THOUSANDS of apparel factory workers rushed back to Dhaka and surrounding Gazipur and Narayanganj on Saturday to join work as the owners were to open...

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  Effectively fighting COVID-19 threat

  by Amir Mohammad Sayem | Updated at 12:00am on April 05, 2020

  NOVEL coronavirus is a global threat for now. There have already been 70 infected cases in Bangladesh and by this time, eight have died and...