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Moudud Ahmmed Sujan
Moudud Ahmmed Sujan is an award-winning journalist. His journalist experience involves health, environment, migration, labour rights and diplomatic issues. Starting as the Jahangirnagar University Correspondent of the Daily Sun newspaper in 2012, he worked in several Dhaka-based English-language newspapers. Currently, he is working as the Health Reporter of The Daily Star. In 2019, he won two awards from The Daily Star for two different reports. One was the "most-talked-about report'"on Antimicrobial Resistance while another was "The Best Series/Investigative Report" on jute factory workers. In the same year, he won the "Media Fellowship 2019", awarded by the family planning directorate of Bangladesh government.
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S African variant dominant in Dhaka
The South African variant of Covid-19 is dominant in Dhaka, revealed an icddr,b study last night. -
South African variant of Covid-19 dominant in Dhaka: icddr,b study
A recent study by the icddr,b revealed that the South African variant of the novel coronavirus is dominant in Dhaka. -
Another new record in daily Covid cases
The Covid-19 infection rate hit a new record yesterday as a total of 7,087 people tested positive in the past 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday. -
Surveillance data key to fighting Covid
With no sign of Covid-19 going away any time soon, accurate and sufficient surveillance data is more important than ever to help inform public health policy in fighting the pandemic, said Dr Nazrul Islam, member of the UN-WHO Technical Advisory Group on Covid-19 Mortality Assessment. -
Covid Treatment at Public Hospitals: Oxygen supply still dangerously low
With the number of infections and deaths from Covid-19 getting bigger, inadequate high-flow oxygen support at public hospitals has become a serious cause for concern.