Bangavax Vaccine: Permission sought for clinical trial
Staff Correspondent
Staff Correspondent
The Clinical Research Organization has asked for permission to launch a clinical trial of Covid-19 vaccine Bangavax, developed by Globe Biotech Ltd of Bangladesh.
The organisation, in an application submitted to the Bangladesh Medical Research Council (BMRC) yesterday, sought to hold first and second phase clinical trials, said chief investigator of the trial Prof Mamun Al Mahtab.
Globe Biotech got permission on January 6 from the Directorate General of Drug Administration to manufacture the doses needed in a clinical trial.
If permitted, a team of 57 researchers will decide the dosage in the first phase and examine safety and efficacy in the second.
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Cabinet members mourn death of Jahangir Hossain
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expressed profound shock and sorrow at the death of Awami League
Central Working Committee member and former state minister and
lawmaker AKM Jahangir Hossain.
prayed for eternal peace of the departed soul and conveyed deep
sympathy to the bereaved family.
The cabinet members who condoled the death of Jahangir included
Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa
Kamal, Planning Minister MA Mannan, Industries Minister Nurul Majid
Mahmud Humayun, Textiles and Jute Minister Golam Dastagir Gazi, Social
Welfare Minister Nuruzzaman Ahmed, Fisheries and Livestock Minister SM
Rezaul Karim, Land Minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury, State Minister for
92pc ICU beds filled with corona patients at govt hospitals in Dhaka
Sun Online Desk
12th December, 2020 03:29:14
Ninety two percent of Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds in government dedicated corona hospitals in the capital are filled with corona patients, leaving no scope for new patients to get life supports.
There are only 113 ICU beds in eight out of 10 government hospitals in the capital.
Meanwhile, the total number of ICU beds in the nine private corona dedicated hospitals is 285.
According to the latest data from , 104 ICU beds out of 113 beds meaning 92 percent are now filled with corona patients, said health emergency and operations controll room under health ministry said.