Coronavirus response

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Corporates

Standards Chartered Bangladesh announces BDT 135 million strategic action plan for Covid-19 response and recovery initiatives

Health workers are seen in protective gear inside a locked down portion of the Jordan residential area to contain a new outbreak of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), in Hong Kong, China January 23, 2021. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu/File Photo
Coronavirus chronicle

Brazil’s Covid-19 response worst, New Zealand’s best: Study

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Health

Unicef provides over US$12m worth PPE, medical supplies to Bangladesh

Warm weather, natural immunity and youth: The misconceptions that compromised South Asia’s Covid-19 response
Panorama

Warm weather, natural immunity and youth: The misconceptions that compromised South Asia’s Covid-19 response

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Budget

Social safety net to expand in response to Covid-19

US President Donald Trump attends a teleconference with governors to discuss partnerships to ?prepare, mitigate and respond to COVID-19" at the headquarters of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) amid coronavirus fears, in Washington, US March 19, 2020. Photo: Reuters
Politics

'It's not about you': Democrats bet Trump Covid-19 response

FILE PHOTO: Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks during a news conference on the situation of the coronavirus (COVID-2019), in Geneva, Switzerland, February 28, 2020. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
Coronavirus chronicle

WHO insists it hid nothing, sounded virus alarm from start

Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-Wen and soldiers wear face masks to protect them coronavirus disease (Covid-19) at a military camp in Tainan, Taiwan, April 9, 2020. REUTERS/Ann Wang
Coronavirus chronicle

Taiwan reports no new coronavirus cases for first time in a month

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Coronavirus chronicle

Applause to women leadership for best coronavirus response