Corona vaccine mixed dose is a ‘dangerous trend’: WHO



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Saumya Swaminathan, chief scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO), has described the use of mixed doses of coronavirus vaccines or switching to vaccines produced by different companies as a "dangerous trend". As an argument in favor of this statement, he said that there is no data-evidence about the results of vaccination or mixed dose application. A report by the news agency Reuters has given this information.

"It's a somewhat dangerous trend," the World Health Organization's chief scientist told an online briefing on Monday. We do not yet have any evidence of mixed doses of the vaccine.

Thailand, a Southeast Asian country, has changed its immunization policy after hundreds of health workers were infected with corona after receiving a full dose of China's Sinovac vaccine.

Thailand announced on Monday that if anyone had been vaccinated with Sinovac as the first dose, they would be given the second dose of AstraZeneca. And health workers who have been vaccinated with two doses of Sinovac will be vaccinated with AstraZeneca or Pfizer-BioNtech as booster doses.

Soumya Swaminathan, chief scientist at the World Health Organization, warned of a mixed dose of the vaccine after Thailand made the announcement. He said that if the citizens decide when to take the second, third and fourth dose of the vaccine, there will be chaos in the country.

   

Omicron: Isolation period is 10 days instead of 14 days



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Dhaka: Coronavirus infection is on the rise in the country. According to the Directorate of Health, if anybody is infected with corona, he will need to have isolation for 10 days instead of 14 days from now. 

On Sunday (January 30) at noon, in the regular virtual bulletin of the directorate about the situation of corona infection in the country, the line director and spokesperson of the disease control unit of the health directorate, Prof. Dr. Md. Nazmul Islam said this. 

"If the corona test is positive, we will talk about isolation for 10 days now," he said. When the fever goes away, he will return to work in 10 days after the symptoms go away. Earlier, the RT-PCR certificate had to be taken as a condition, but we are postponing it for the time being. 

"Everyone is talking about Omicron's symptoms," he said. Symptoms include runny nose, headache, fatigue, sneezing, sore throat, and cough. He said that if a person has a sore throat due to cold or fever due to shivering, the advice of a doctor should also be taken. 

Dr. Md. Nazmul Islam said, "As the rate of corona infection has increased in the country, so has our vaccination program." Those who have taken the second dose and are considered eligible for the booster dose, even those who have received the vaccine message but have not been vaccinated due to the corona infection, will be able to take the booster dose six weeks after recovery.

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More 12 people die, 11434 get covid & 752 recovered



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Twelve more people died from deadly virus corona while 11434 people got infected by the virus in the last 24 hours across the country.

This information was sent to the media on Friday ( January 21) by DGHS through a press release.

According to the press release, the latest deaths and cases of infection have brought the toll to 28192 and 1664616 respectively.

The release said that 752 people have recovered bringing the recovery figure to 1555597 so far.

During the period 40134 samples were tested in 852 authorized labs making a total 12047715 samples so far.

It may be mentioned here that the first case of corona infection was detected in Bangladesh on last March 8 (2020) while the first death occurred on March 18.

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More  04 people die, 277 get covid & 326 recovered 



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Four more people died from deadly virus corona while 277 people got infected by the virus in the last 24 hours across the country.

This information was sent to the media on Wednesday  (December  6) by DGHS through a press release.

According to the press release, the latest deaths and cases of infection have brought the toll to 28005 and 1577720 respectively

The release said that 326 people have recovered bringing the recovery figure to 1542720 so far.

During the period 19237 samples were tested in 848 authorized labs making the total to 10000843 samples since Covid testings have started in the country. 

It may be mentioned here that the first case of corona infection was detected in Bangladesh on last March 8 (2020) while the first death occurred on March 18.

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More 26 people die, 1555 get covid & 1565 recovered 



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Twenty six more people died from deadly virus corona while 1555 people got infected by the virus in the last 24 hours across the country.

This information was sent to the media on Monday (September 20) by DGHS through a press release.

According to the press release, the latest deaths and cases of infection have brought the toll to 27251 and 1544238 respectively.

The release said that during the time 27431 simples  were tested at 800 authorized laboratories across the country making the total test of 9465087 samples. 1565 people have recovered bringing the recovery figure to 1503106 so far.

It may be mentioned here that the first case of corona infection was detected in Bangladesh on last March 8 (2020) while the first death occurred on March 18.

 

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