Month: March 2022

Bangladesh logged eight more Covid-linked deaths with 799 fresh cases in 24 hours till Tuesday morning as the positivity rate kept declining.

The daily positivity rate slightly declined to 3.35 per cent from Monday’s 3.65 per cent after testing 23,883 samples during the period, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

On Monday, Bangladesh reported four more Covid-linked deaths with 897 fresh cases.

The fresh numbers took the country’s total fatalities to 29,045 while the caseload to 19,44,376.

Among the new deceased, five were men and three women.

Three deaths were reported from Chattogram division while two from Rajshahi and one each from Dhaka, Mymensingh and Khulna divisions.

Meanwhile, the mortality rate remained unchanged at 1.49 per cent.

However, the recovery rate increased to 93.71 per cent with the recovery of 7,460 more patients during the 24-hour period.

Covid situation in February

In February, the country reported 643 Covid-linked deaths and 1,44,744 new cases while 2,46,452 patients recovered from the disease, according to DGHS.

Among the 643 deaths during the period, 421 were unvaccinated patients, 61 were vaccinated with the first dose of Covid-19 vaccine, 158 with the second dose and three with the third dose.

On January 28, Bangladesh logged its earlier highest daily positivity rate at 33.37 per cent reporting 15,440 cases and 20 deaths.

On December 9 last year, Bangladesh again logged zero Covid-related death after nearly three weeks as the pandemic was apparently showing signs of easing.

The country reported first zero Covid-related death in a single day on November 20 last year along with 178 infections since the pandemic broke out in Bangladesh in March 2020.

Besides, the country registered the highest daily caseload of 16,230 on July 28 last year, while the highest number of daily fatalities was 264 on August 10 last year.

Source: United News of Bangladesh

At least 30 people were injured, 11 of them with bullet wounds, after supporters of winning and losing chairman candidates in Gopalganj union parishad polls clashed on Tuesday morning.

Locals said there had been rivalry between the two centering the UP election at Parchandra Dighalia village of the union.

As a sequel to the enmity, defeated chairman candidate Sheikh Md Abed Ali’s supporters attacked the supporters of newly elected chairman of Rana Molla in the morning, leaving 30 people injured.

Eleven of the injured, who suffered bullet wounds, were undergoing treatment at Gopalganj General Hospital, said Dr Bichitra Kumar Biswas, an emergency unit doctor of the hospital.

Besides, six houses were vandalized during the clash.

Sheetal Chandra Paul, Inspector (Investigation) of Gopalganj Police Station, said a large number of police personnel have been deployed at the village to keep the situation under control.

Source: United News of Bangladesh

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested four people in connection with the murder of a teenager in Cox’s Bazar.

The arrestees are Nurul Islam, 20, of Chakaria Barapukuria area, Arif Hossain, 36, of Lohagara Chunti area, Md. Hossain, 31, a resident of Ukhia Kutupalong Camp-2. and Abu Hena Hanif, 33, Maheshkhali Kalarmarchhara area.

RAB-15 Commander Lieutenant Colonel Khairul Islam at a press conference on Tuesday said that 13-year-old school student and three-wheeler driver Wayez was stabbed dead by his friend Nurul Islam with the help of three other arrestees.

He said that the body of the victim was found on Dhechuapalang road in Khuniapalang of Ramu on Feb 26.

After the victim’s father filed a case, RAB arrested the accused.

During the interrogation accused Nurul said that on the night of Feb 25 they stabbed Wayez to death and snatched the three-wheeler.

Legal action was being taken against the accused, RAB commander said.

Source: United News of Bangladesh

Senior Secretary of the Public Security division under the Home Ministry Akhter Hossain on Saturday said the police carry out challenging duties like maintaining security of life and protecting property of the people, maintaining law and order, which are very difficult to implement.

The police has been performing those challenging duties properly since if these are not implemented properly, there will be severe chaos in the society and development will be hampered.

Akhter Hossain came up with the remarks while addressing a programme, which was organized to mark the Police Memorial Day at Police Staff College Convention Hall at Mirpur in the city on Tuesday.

Inspector General of Police (IGP) Benazir Ahmed presided over the function where welcoming remarks were made by Additional IG (HRM) Md. Mazharul Islam. Additional IGs, heads of various units of the police based in Dhaka, senior police officers and families of police personnel killed in the line of duty were present on the occasion.

Senior Home Secretary said ,”We view any minor incident by the police in a negative light,” he said. “Rather, we may think that we can sleep peacefully at night because the police are awake.”

In his speech, the IGP Benazir Ahmed said that Police Memorial Day has been celebrated since 2017. Today we are reunited in that continuity. “In 2021, we lost 348 colleagues, of which 136 lost their lives during on duty,” he said.

The IGP said that in times of peace the police are engaged in war. This war is against unrest, against terrorism, against those who want to disrupt the peace and security of the society. “We are engaged in this war for 24 hours. In case of war, the loss is certain. Since we are constantly fighting for state security, social security, we are also sacrificing every year,” he added.

“We are trying to establish the Central Police Hospital as a full-fledged hospital. A divisional hospital is being set up in Dhaka,” he said.

Police Memorial Day 2022 has been celebrated with due dignity in all metropolitans, range and district units of Bangladesh Police.

Later, a memorandum of recognition was given to the families of the police personnel who sacrificed their lives in the line of duty at the Police Staff College Convention Hall.

It may be mentioned that out of 138 police personnel who sacrificed their lives in the line of duty in 2021, there is one Additional Superintendent of Police, one Assistant Superintendent of Police, ten Inspectors, 23 Sub-Inspectors, one Sergeant, 19 ASIs, two Naiks and 81 Constables.

Source: United News of Bangladesh

Two women were killed and eight others were injured when a bus hit a CNG auto-rickshaw on Narail-Lohagarah road at Burikhali in Sadar upazila of Narail district on Tuesday.

The deceased were identified as Rani Biswas, 40, and Mamata, 50, of Jashore district.

The accident occurred around 3 pm when the Narail-bound ‘Khanjahan Paribahan’ hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw, leaving one killed and nine others injured, said Shawkat Kabir, officer-in-charge of Sadar Police Station.

The injured were taken to a local hospital where another woman died after admission.

Source: United News of Bangladesh

Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) on Tuesday arrested the owner of the pick-up van that hit nine siblings walking back home from a temple in Cox’s Bazar, leaving six dead.

The arrestee is Mahmudul Karim.

PBI Cox’s Bazar Special Superintendent of Police Sarwar Alam said the PBI team arrested the pick-up owner from Chakaria of Cox’s Bazar.

He was later produced before a court in the afternoon, the official added.

Earlier on February 16, Chakaria Senior Judicial Magistrate Rajib Kumar Dey directed the PBI to investigate the case.

On February 11, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) detained the driver of the pick-up van from Dhaka’s Mohammadpur area.

On February 8, the fatal accident occurred near Memorial Christian Hospital in the Malumghat area of Chakaria when the nine siblings were crossing a road, leaving five of them dead on spot. Four other siblings were also injured in the accident.

The deceased were Anupam Shil, 47, Nirupam Shil, 45, Dipak Shil, 40 Champak Shil, 30, Smaran Sushil, 32, and Raktim Shil, 33 sons of late Suresh Chandra Shil of Dulahazra union in Chakaria upazila.

On February 22, Raktim Shil died at Chattogram Medical College and Hospital (CMCH).

The nine, all Hindus, had gone to a nearby temple to offer prayers for their father who was killed a day before.

Plaban Sushil, another brother lodged a complaint with Chakaria Police.

Source: United News of Bangladesh

At least 12 people were killed and dozens went missing when a landslide hit a jade mine in Myanmar’s northernmost Kachin state late Monday, local police said on Tuesday.

“A landslide occurred last night. Nearly 40 jade scavengers were buried. 12 bodies have been found this morning and the rescue operation is underway,” the police told Xinhua.

The death toll could be higher in the landslide that struck an old jade mining site in Mat Lin Chaung village in Hpakant township of Kachin state at 22:35 p.m. local time on Monday, a local resident said.

Deadly landslides are frequent in Kachin state, especially in Hpakant mining region.

Many locals make their living by scavenging jade in the region and most of the landslides are caused by partial collapse of the tailing heaps or dams.

A major fatal landslide occurred at a jade mining site in Hpakant township in July 2020, leaving 174 dead and 54 others injured.

Source: United News of Bangladesh

Children are much less at risk of complications from COVID-19 than adults, a leading British health expert said Monday.

Shamez Ladhani, a consultant paediatrician at the UK Health Security Agency, said new data published Monday by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) should be reassuring for parents, clinicians and policy makers.

Ladhani, also chief investigator of the ONS study, said, “it is reassuring that the vast majority of primary and secondary school aged children surveyed since March 2020 have not experienced long COVID symptoms.”

He said that as the findings show that children are much less at risk of complications from COVID-19 than adults, keeping children in school, where mental health support is available, remains vital.

“This data provides important information about the potential direct and indirect impacts of COVID-19 on children and young people,” said Patrick Nguipdop Djomo, co-chief investigator of the study at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).

The study was jointly led by ONS, the LSHTM, and UK Health Security Agency.

Source: United News of Bangladesh

The overall number of Covid cases has surged past 436 million as Omicron infections keep rising across the world.

According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total case count mounted to 436,385, 844 while the death toll from the virus reached 5,955,315 Tuesday morning.

The US has recorded 79,035,756 cases so far and 950,408 people have died from the virus in the country, the university data shows.

India’s Covid-19 tally rose to 42,930,015 on Tuesday, as 5,885 new cases were registered in 24 hours across the country, as per the federal health ministry data.

Besides, 211 deaths due to the pandemic since Saturday morning took the death toll to 514,054.

Meanwhile, Brazil, which has been experiencing a new wave of cases since January last year, registered 28,787,620 cases as of Tuesday, while its Covid death toll rose to 649,443.

Situation in Bangladesh

Bangladesh logged four more Covid-linked deaths with 897 fresh cases in 24 hours till Monday morning.

The daily positivity rate slightly declined to 3.65% from Sunday’s 4.01% after testing 24,605 samples during the period, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

On Sunday, Bangladesh reported nine Covid-linked deaths with 864 fresh cases. On Saturday, less than 1000 cases were reported after 52 days.

The fresh numbers took the country’s total fatalities to 29,037 and the caseload to 19,43,577.

Of the 67 deaths recorded from February 21 to February 27, some 26.5% received Covid vaccines while 73.5% did not, the DGHS said.

Among the new deceased, two were men and two women. Two deaths were reported from Dhaka division while one each from Chattogram and Khulna divisions.

Meanwhile, the mortality rate remained unchanged at 1.49%. However, the recovery rate increased to 93.37% with the recovery of 7,976 more patients during the 24-hour period.

On January 28, Bangladesh logged its earlier highest daily positivity rate at 33.37% reporting 15,440 cases and 20 deaths.

On December 9 last year, Bangladesh again logged zero Covid-related death after nearly three weeks as the pandemic was apparently showing signs of easing.

The country reported its first zero Covid-related death in a single day on November 20 last year along with 178 infections since the pandemic broke out in Bangladesh in March 2020.

Besides, the country registered the highest daily caseload of 16,230 on July 28 last year, while the highest number of daily fatalities was 264 on August 10 last year.

Source: United News of Bangladesh