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  An alternate strategy to control COVID-19

  by AM Zakir Hussain | Updated at 12:00am on April 23, 2020

  DISEASE-related estimations give information on the number of the diseased, number of severe cases, outcome of the disease such as whether cured, suffered from permanent...

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  Time for govt to also keep an eye on dengue outbreak

  | Updated at 12:00am on April 23, 2020

  WITH COVID-19 outbreak intensifying, dengue seems to have been put on the back burner. The number of dengue hospital admission this year has already been...

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  A worrying erosion of people’s purchasing capacity, savings

  | Updated at 12:00am on April 23, 2020

  THE statement that the minister of state for disaster management made to New Age on Tuesday saying that an estimated 1 per cent of the...

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  Open letter to prime minister

  | Updated at 12:00am on April 22, 2020

  Honourable Prime Minister, YOU are providing leadership to the nation with all sincerity at this critical moment of the COVID-19 pandemic. You have announced a...

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  Human activities, climate change

  by Abu Saleh Mohammad Noman | Updated at 12:00am on April 22, 2020

  ANY change in the environment of human beings that affects their lives and livelihoods in an unwarranted fashion is defined as disaster. It is hypothesised...

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  COVID-19 treatment mustn’t be marred by mismanagement

  | Updated at 12:00am on April 22, 2020

  MISMANAGEMENT in and inadequate medical facilities for COVID-19 treatment have come with worries. Patients being cared for in almost all hospitals designated for COVID-19 treatment...

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  Poor treatment plans lay bare wider threat from COVID-19

  | Updated at 12:00am on April 22, 2020

  THE reported infection of an increased number of physicians and nurses with the novel coronavirus appears to have laid bare a wider threat from COVID-19,...

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  Golden opportunity to reconsider existing inconsistency in law

  by K Shamsuddin Mahmood | Updated at 12:00am on April 21, 2020

  SOME form of security in creditor’s hand in order to secure his payment of loan to the debtor relates back to antiquity. The idea was...

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  Military stages a come back

  by Anis Chowdhury | Updated at 12:00am on April 21, 2020

  ‘I KNOW … life is priceless. But the economy and jobs must return to normal,’ Jair Bolsonaro, the president of Brazil said on April 17, when...

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  Citizens in conflict with law mustn’t suffer during outbreak

  | Updated at 12:00am on April 21, 2020

  THE COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc across the world taking 165,154 lives globally and 101 lives in Bangladesh so far. While no one is safe,...