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tueSDaY, SePtemBer 28, 20215Gareth WiLLmerExtreme events are increasinglycompounding each other, even if theyinitially seem wide apart andunconnected, making it more crucial totackle their root causes, says a report.The Interconnected Disaster Risksreport, by UN academic arm the UnitedNations University, focuses on 10disasters worldwide in 2020-21. Theseinclude Amazon fires, floods inVietnam, Cyclone Amphan inBangladesh and India, and locustoutbreaks across multiple countries, aswell as COVID-19, and the Arcticheatwave."The world witnessed a number ofrecord-breaking disasters that showedus clearer than ever before howinterconnected we are," says the report.Tackling them in "fragmented, isolatedand insular ways" is no longer tenable,it adds.While it is already known that manyevents are interconnected, homing inon a limited set shows the links moreexplicitly, says Jack O'Connor, anauthor of the report and senior scientistat UNU's Institute for Environmentand Human Security.Global disasters are interconnected"What we want to do with this reportis to get people to see disasters morenot as isolated events, but as the tip ofan iceberg," he said. "If you digunderneath, you find that they're reallycaused by these big systems andstructures that have patterns."The report highlights both the knockoneffect of one disaster on others, andsimilarities in root causes. The mostcommon causes were identified asinsufficient risk management andundervaluation of environmental costsin decision-making, as well as climatechange.One event covered by the report - theextinction of the Chinese paddlefish -shared similar root causes with thedestruction caused by CycloneAmphan, in that dam building in bothcases had consequences for nature andpeople, undermining ecosystemsdownstream.The paddlefish extinction also sharedsimilarities with Amazon fires, saysO'Connor, as both resulted partiallyLack of risk management and climate change among commoncauses.Photo: Greenpeacefrom landscape interventions toharness economically valuableresources. In the case of the Amazon,trees were cut down for agriculture,resulting in declining local rainfall andworsening fires.In turn, deforestation is linked toWestern demand for meat, and has aknock-on effect on climate change,exacerbating extreme events elsewherein the world, says the report. "The scaleof the interconnection, when you reallylook into it, is surprising even for us,"says O'Connor, referring to scientistsstudying the phenomenon.COVID-19 has also illustrated howmultiple hazards can undermine wellestablishedmeasures to mitigatedisasters. For example, says O'Connor,the pandemic reduced the effectivenessof early warning systems duringCyclone Amphan, complicating stormpreparedness including moving peopleto shelters. COVID-19 also affected theability of Vietnam to deal with lastyear's floods.This all makes it important to tackleroot causes in an integrated way toachieve multiple benefits rather thansolving single problems, says thereport. "When you're trying to plan forthe unexpected, you have to use asystems-thinking approach," saysO'Connor. "Planning for what we'vealready seen is not going to be enough."He adds that these consequences areessential to consider when solutions toissues can simultaneously have highlydamaging environmental effects. Forexample, hydropower dams, whichmany countries in the global Southplan to build in the coming years,provide renewable energy but can alsohave devastating environmentalimpacts.The report highlights the need toconsider and mitigate "the trade-offsfor clean energy, irrigation, watersupply, ecosystem quality andbiodiversity" in an interdisciplinaryway. Saleemul Huq, director of theInternational Centre for ClimateChange and Development in Dhaka,Bangladesh, agrees that focusing oninterconnected issues is important. "Ibelieve that the world is now enteringthe era of loss and damage fromhuman-induced climate change, andwe all need to work together to dealwith this issue," he said.In Brazil, Ane Alencar, sciencedirector at the country's AmazonEnvironmental Research Institute, saysa lack of political will to fight processessuch as deforestation hampers thecountry's ability to deal withinterconnected events. "Understandingof the importance of the Amazon toBrazilians and the world, and theconnection with meat consumption,food prices and other things alike isvery important," she said.Could gene editing chickensprevent future pandemics?NataLie GroverDiseases such as avian flutrigger the culling of millionsof birds each year. But thatneed not be the case formuch longer. Vaccines areone preventive strategyemployed in some countries,but they do not stop birdsfrom being infected, gettingmild versions of the diseaseand transmitting it to healthychickens. In fact, thisimperfect shield can makethings worse, incentivisingthe virus to mutate to evadethe vaccine.And an even more grimpossibility is that the virusesthat afflict domestic birds canspill over into humans withdeadly effect. So scientistsare working on a morepermanent solution: geneediting, which is designed toalter specific genes in anorganism to enhance certaincharacteristics or inhibitothers. It is sometimeslumped into the samecategory as geneticmodification, which involvesthe transfer of a gene fromone organism to another.Genetically modifiedorganisms are strictlyregulated in the EU, due tolongstanding fears ofunintended environmentaland public health effects.Some campaign groups saygene editing brings similarrisks. The use of gene editingtechniques "could not onlyexacerbate the negativeeffects of industrial farmingon nature, animals andpeople, but it couldeffectively turn both natureand ourselves (through thefood we eat) into a giganticgenetic engineeringexperiment with unknown,potentially irrevocableoutcomes", Greenpeace saidin a statement earlier thisyear. Proponents,meanwhile, assert that geneediting technology is merelya more precise version of thetraditional selective breedingof animals.At the heart of the geneediting solution is the Crisprtool, which is designed towork like a pair of geneticscissors. This tool could beused, for instance, to edit outa section of chicken DNA toprevent the bird flu virusfrom taking hold in the cellsand replicating.Prof Helen Sang, ageneticist at the RoslinInstitute at the University ofEdinburgh, is part of a teamof scientists that is workingon the early stages of such aproject. Crispr technology isefficient because it allows forthe evaluation of the edit inlab-grown cells - if thoseresults look encouraging, itcan then be tested in birds,she says.Pretty much everything weeat has been selectively bred -from crops to poultry. But inmany places, geneticallymodified crops are common.In the US, for instance, mostsoy and corn are engineeredto maximise output. In 2015,US regulators also grantedthe first approval of ananimal (an Atlantic salmon)Gene editing could be used to alter a chicken DNa to prevent the bird fluvirus from taking hold in the cells.Photo: Barcroft mediawhose DNA had beenscientifically modified forhuman consumption.Disease-resistant pigs areexpected to be next in line.Selective breedingfundamentally alters thegenetics of an organism butis perceived as natural, whileusing genetic editingtechnology for the same goalis considered unnatural,noted Dr Laurence Tiley, amolecular virologist at theUniversity of Cambridge'sdepartment of veterinarymedicine.Tiley's and Sang's research,about a decade ago, yieldedearly success in geneticallymodifying chickens toprevent the spread of bird flu.But they didn't pursue theproject after realising thetechnology wasn't robustenough to completelyprevent the birds fromgetting the flu in the firstplace.In the years since, Crisprtechnology has grown fromrelative obscurity torevolutionising the fields ofbiomedical research, clinicalmedicine and agriculture.Clearly, these gene editingtools are not the way natureintended, but are veryprecise, says Tiley. "You canmake exactly the change youwant in exactly theappropriate place. And youcan check it … and confirmthat there's nothing else thatyou've made any otherchanges to."Earlier this year, aconsultation by the UKgovernment opened the doorfor gene editing of crops andlivestock in England. Thechanges to the current strictrules - which originate fromthe EU and make geneediting for crops andlivestock almost impossible -are intended to bringwidespread benefits toconsumers and farmers,including healthier food,lower antibiotic use andbetter animal welfare.But campaigners sayloosening the rules couldinstead be worse for animalwelfare, for instance, if thetechnology was used topromote growth over animalhealth, or to enable livestockto be kept in crowdedconditions.It's not an either/orsituation, says Tiley, adding:"I think there is an obviouscase to improve livestockproduction … to reduce thetransmission of infectiousdiseases. But there are somethings that, no matter howhard you try, you're going tohave a disease problem, andif you can geneticallyengineer these problemsaway, then that's a goodthing to do."DamiaN CarriNGtoNPeople born today will suffermany times more extremeheatwaves and other climatedisasters over their lifetimesthan their grandparents,research has shown. Thestudy is the first to assess thecontrasting experience ofclimate extremes bydifferent age groups andstarkly highlights theintergenerational injusticeposed by the climate crisis.The analysis showed that achild born in 2020 willendure an average of 30extreme heatwaves in theirlifetime, even if countriesfulfil their current pledges tocut future carbon emissions.That is seven times moreheatwaves than someoneborn in 1960.Today's babies will alsogrow up to experience twiceas many droughts andwildfires and three timesmore river floods and cropfailures than someone who is60 years old today. However,rapidly cutting globalemissions to keep globalheating to 1.5C would almosthalve the heatwaves today'schildren will experience,while keeping under 2Cwould reduce the number bya quarter.A vital task of the UN'sCop26 climate summit inGlasgow in November is todeliver pledges of biggeremissions cuts from themost polluting countries andclimate justice will be animportant element of thenegotiations. Developingcountries, and the youthstrike protesters who havetaken to the streets aroundthe world, point out thatthose who did least to causethe climate crisis aresuffering the most."Our results highlight asevere threat to the safety ofyoung generations and callfor drastic emissionreductions to safeguard theirfuture," said Prof WimThiery, at Vrije UniversiteitBrussel in Belgium and wholed the research. He saidpeople under 40 today wereset to live "unprecedented"lives, ie suffering heatwaves,droughts, floods and cropfailures that would havebeen virtually impossible -0.01% chance - withoutglobal heating.Children set for more climatedisasters than their forefathersBoy walks through a dried up agricultural field in the Saadiya area, northof Diyala in eastern iraq.Photo: ahmad al-rubayeDr Katja Frieler, at the projectionsfrom Africa face 5.7 times morePotsdam Institute for sophisticated computer extreme events.Climate Impact Research in climate models, detailed "This highlights aGermany and part of the population and life disproportionate climatestudy team, said: "The good expectancy data, and global change burden for youngnews is we can take much of temperature trajectories generations in the globalthe climate burden from ourchildren's shoulders if welimit warming to 1.5C byphasing out fossil fuel use.from the IntergovernmentalPanel on Climate Change.The scientists said theincreases in climate impactssouth," the researchers said.Dohyeon Kim, an activistfrom South Korea who tookpart in the global climateThis is a huge opportunity." calculated for today's young strike on Friday, said:Leo Hickman, editor of people were likely to be "Countries of the globalCarbon Brief, said: "These underestimates, as multiple north need to pushnew findings reinforce our2019 analysis which showedthat today's children willneed to emit eight times lessCO2 over the course of theirextremes within a year hadto be grouped together andthe greater intensity ofevents was not accountedfor.governments to put justiceand equity at the heart ofclimate action, both in termsof climate [aid] and settingmore ambitious pledges thatlifetime than their There was significant take into considerationgrandparents, if global regional variation in the historical responsibilities."warming is to be kept below1.5C. Climate change isalready exacerbating manyresults. For example, the 53million children born inEurope and central AsiaThe analysis found thatonly those aged under 40years today will live to seeinjustices, but the between 2016 and 2020 will the consequences of theintergenerational injustice of experience about four times choices made on emissionsclimate change is more extreme events in their cuts. Those who are olderparticularly stark."lifetimes under current will have died before theThe research, published in emissions pledges, but the impacts of those choicesthe journal Science, 172 million children of the become apparent in thecombined extreme event same age in sub-Saharan world.riCharD LuSComBeMany anglers lament the one that gotaway. In Florida, the issue is moreoften the fish that is caught but isthen snatched by a shark beforebeing reeled in. A grant from theNational Oceanic and AtmosphericAdministration (Noaa) will allowscientists at two universities toresearch and possibly solve theproblem of shark depredation, anincreasingly common annoyance to 4million recreational anglers who fishFloridian waters each year.The study by the Harbor BranchOceanographic Institute at FloridaAtlantic University (FAU) andMississippi State University willinvestigate what species of sharks arethe most prolific offenders, whattypes of fish fall victim morefrequently and where the theftsoccur.The researchers also hope to get ahandle for the first time on theeconomic cost. The recreational deepsea fishing industry supports morethan 88,000 jobs in Florida andA whole new angle on shark depredationthe researchers also hope to get a handle for the first time on the economic cost.Photo: matt heathprovides annual revenue above $9bn."Few studies have quantified theimpact of depredation in recreationalfisheries," said Dr Matt Ajemian, thelead investigator, assistant researchprofessor and director of the fisheriesecology and conservation laboratoryat FAU Harbor Branch."Incorporating fishermen'sknowledge into a scientific processgives them more confidence inscientific results, promotes trust andmore importantly increases thequantity and quality of data."Ajemian's team will embrace whatit calls a citizen-science approach,working with and surveyingrecreational fishermen and buildingon a Facebook site with 6,000members that already recordsphotos, videos and anecdotalaccounts of sharks snatching fishsuch as red snapper and grouper."The data we have collected fromthe Facebook group show thepotential benefits of a social mediabasedapproach to engage fishermenin reporting, which has uncoveredthe potential breadth and complexityof the issue," Ajemian said.The researchers will also take amore hands-on approach, includingtaking swabs of bite wounds on fishremains to attempt to identify thespecies of shark involved. Someexperts believe preservation effortshave led to an increase of sharkdepredation."Now that these conservationactions have been put in place, andthese management plans have beenput in place, what we're actuallyseeing is something more natural,more healthy," Lauran Brewster, asenior research fellow at FAU HarborBranch, told the Sun-Sentinel."We need to learn how to respondto that without retaliating against aspecies that's just living where it'ssupposed to live." The FAU award ofalmost $200,000 is part of a rollingprogram of educational grants fromNoaa to universities conductingresearch in certain scientific areas.On Saturday, a page on the agency'swebsite celebrated National Huntingand Fishing Day.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 20216Rangpur records no Covid deathfor second consecutive dayA three-day long "Big Data, lOT and Machine Learning; BIM-2" concluded in CUET recently.Abu Taher elected asmember secretary ofSreepur MunicipalJubo DalRAzIB PRADHAN, SREEPURCORRESPONDENTThe names of upazila andmunicipal branch committeesof Jubo Dal have beenannounced in Sreepur upazilaof Gazipur. Abu TaherPradhan has been newlyelected as a member secretaryin the committee of SreepurMunicipal Jubo Dal. Theformer Chhatra Dal leaderserved as the 1st vicepresidentof SreepurMunicipal Chhatra Dal andthe 5th ward member ofSreepur Union Chhatra Dal.This information has beengiven in a written pressrelease issued byKamruzzaman Dulal, officesecretary of the executivecommittee of the Central JuboDal last Thursday.Themeeting was chaired by SaifulAlam Nirab, President ofBangladesh Jatiyatabadi JuboDal and moderated by SultanSalauddin Tukur, GeneralSecretary Md MahfuzurRahman, Gazipur DistrictJubo Dal President MonirHossain.Abu Taher Pradhan, newlyelected member secretary ofJubo Dal of SreepurMunicipal Committee, toldThe Bangladesh Today in anexclusive interview that "Aftera long time, the name of thecommittee has beenannounced. We are all veryexcited to be on thecommittee.404 kgs of fishfries released inNabaganga riverMAGURA : Department ofFisheries has released 404 kgsof fish fries in the river ofNabaganga in the district aimsat boosting the fish production,reports BSS.Local lawmaker AdvocateSaifuzzaman Shikhar formallyreleased the fish fries at afunction as the chief guest heldin the river's Satdoha ShoshanGhat area in the morning withDeputy Commissioner (DC)Ashraful Alam in the chair.District council chairmanPankaj Kundu, DistrictFisheries Officer Anwar Kabir,Deputy Director of theDepartment of AgricultureExtension of the districtSushant Kumar Pramanik,Municipal Mayor KhurshidHaider Tutul, Chairman ofSadar Upazila Parishad AbuNasir Bablu and Sadar UpazilaNirbahi Officer (UNO) YasinKabir, among others, werepresent on the occasion.638 puja mandapsto be erected inGaibandhaGAIBANDHA: A total of 638puja mandaps will beerected for the SharadiyaDurga Puja, the biggestreligious festival of theHindu Community, in all theseven upazilas of the districtthis year, reports BSS.This was disclosed bypresident of BangladeshPuja Utjapon Parishad(BPUP), district unit, to thecorrespondent of thenational news agency herelast morning.Of the total, some 103mandaps would be erectedin Sadar upazila, 145 inSundarganj upazila, 129 inGobindaganj upazila, 117 inSadullapur upazila, 64 inPalashbari upazila, 61 inShaghata upazila, and 19 inFulchhari upazila of thedistrict, he said.The five-day long pujawould begin from October 11and conclude on October 15through the immersion ofidols at different waterbodies including canal, pondand river, he added.As per mythology, on the6th day (Maha Shashti)Goddess Durga landed onearth with her 4 children:Goddess Saraswati, GoddessLaxmi, Lord Ganesha, andLord Kartikeya.In reply to a query RanjitBakshi said a view exchangemeeting between deputyinspector general (DIG) ofpolice, Rangpur Range andthe members of district pujautjapan parishad virtuallyon Sunday.Superintendent of police(SP) Muhammad TowhidulJashore: Durga Puja, thebiggest religious festival ofthe Bangalee Hinducommunity, will be held at698 mandaps in eightupazilas of the district thisyear, reports BSS.The five-day long festivalwill begin on October 11with due respect andreligious fervor across thecountry and end onOctober 15 with immersionof the idols of goddessDurga and other deities.District Puja UdjaponCommittee's presidentAshim Kundu said 145mandaps will be erected insadar upazila, 55 inJhikargacha upazila, 29 inSharshab upazila, 48 inChaugacha upazila, 98 inKeshabpur upazila, 103 inMonirampur upazila, 126in Abhaynagar upazila and94 in Bagherpara upazila ofthe district.Islam arranged the virtualmeeting at his officeconference room of thedistrict town.SP Muhammad TowhidulIslam, president of BPUP,district unit Ranaji KumarBakhshi Surjwa, actinggeneral secretary BimalKumar Sarker, president ofSadar upazila unit SujonProsad and generalsecretary Rockey Deb tookpart in the discussionmeeting virtually amongothers.In the meeting, DIGDebdash Bhattacharjwaurged the HinduCommunity to celebrate thefestival with muchenthusiasm and religiousfervor in the district andassured them of takingnecessary steps in thisregard.Police, ansar and VDPmembers including grampolice would be deployed atthe puja mandaps each andthe elite forces RAB wouldalso patrol on the road tohold the puja here smoothly,the DIG added.Stern and lawful actionwould be taken against thepersons who would beinvolved in creating anarchyand trouble at the time ofpuja, the DIG warned.The leaders of district andupazila puja utjaponparishad, and all the officersin charge (OCs) includingthe journalists attended themeeting, said OC of Sadarthana Md. MasudurRahman.Durga Puja will beheld at 698Jashore mandapsSpecial securitymeasures are being takento ensure security andpeaceful celebrationsduring festival.Jashore DeputyCommissioner (DC)Tamijul Islam Khan said allkinds of step will be takento celebrate Durga Puja in afestive atmosphere.Durga Puja will be held inevery mandap inaccordance with the healthrules due to coronavirus,he said.Stringent securitymeasures will also be takenfor smooth holding of thepuja all over the district, hesaid, adding lawenforcement agency will bein place to ensure smoothcelebration.The monitoring team willwork at the district andupazila level.Photo: Joynal AbedinInt’l confce onbig data, IOTconcludes atCUETGAzI JOYNAL ABEDIN,RAOzAN CORRESPONDENTA three-day long "Big Data,lOT and Machine Learning;BIM-2" conferenceorganized in collaborationwith a global platform ofvarious researchers anduniversity teachers workingat home and abroad toaddress the challenges of theFourth IndustrialRevolution and ensuresustainable developmentconcluded on Saturday.During the time, ProfessorDr. Saidur Rahman ofSunway University ofMalaysia, RegionalEditor,International Journal ofBiomedical Engineering andTechnology, NationalPhysical Laboratory,Indiaand LifeFellow, IEEE,Dr. VR Singh, former vicechancellor of the NationalUniversity and ProfessorofComputer ScienceandEngineeringat theUniversity of DhakaProfessor Dr. Hafiz Md.Hasan Babu were present asguests at the closingceremony of theinternational conference onthe virtual platform.The event was presidedover by BIM-2021Organizing Chair andProfessor of ComputerScience and Engineering atCUET Prof. Dr. MohammadSamsul Arefin.The conference wasorganized with the technicalassistance of IEEEComputer SocietyBangladesh Chapter, CUETIntelligent Computing Laband Center for NaturalScience and EngineeringResearch.RMCH recordsfour more deathsat Covid-19 unitRAJSHAHI: RajshahiMedical College Hospital(RMCH) recorded fourmore fatalities at its Covid-19 unit in the last 24 hourstill 6am yesterday, raisingthe death toll to 156 so farthis month, reports BSS.However, the previousday's fatality figure was alsofour, while on Thursday lastthe death figure was just onewhich was the ever-lowestone in the hospital since thesecond wave of thepandemic hit the countryaround six months back.Earlier, the number ofcasualties was 340 inAugust, 566 in July and 405in June, health officials said.RMCH Director BrigadierGeneral Dr Shamim Yazdanitold newsmen that the threeof the deceased were theresidentsofChapainawabganj, while onefrom Rajshahi.Among the deaths, threewere female and one male.All of the fresh fatalitieswere suffering fromsymptoms of Covid-19 in thehospital.RANGPUR: No death dueto Covid-19 was recordedfor the second consecutiveday on Sunday in thedivision where thepandemicbsituationcontinues improvingalmost during the lastseven weeks, reports BSS."Earlier, Rangpurdivision witnessed noCovid-19 fatality on May16, on September 12, 13, 14,20 and 22 last," saidDivisional Deputy Director(Health) Dr Abu Mdzakirul Islam.The number of Covid-19casualties remained steadyat 1,230 in thedivisionbwhere thepositivity and fatality ratesare declining consistently.The district-wise breakup of the 1,230 fatalitiesstands at 291 in Rangpur,80 in Panchagarh, 87 inNilphamari, 66 inLalmonirhat, 68 inKurigram, 250 inThakurgaon, 325 inDinajpur and 63 inA week-long District Rating Chess League-2021 was inagaurated at Joypurhat stadium on Sunday.Photo: Masrakul AlomRANGPUR: Leaders of differentorganisations working for welfare of disabledpeople at a discussion have stressed onengaging both government-NGOs efforts toensure development of the physicallychallenged people, reports BSS.'Rangpur Badhir Sangha (RBS)' organisedthe discussion with assistance of BangladeshNational Federation of the Deaf, on TownHall premises. They also brought out a rallyon the city streets on Sunday afternoon.The programmes were arranged inobservance of the International Week of DeafPeople-2021 and International Day of SignLanguages-2021 with the themes'Celebrating Thriving Deaf Communities' and'We Sign for Human Rights'vrespectively.A limited number of physically challenged,hearing impaired and intellectually disabledpeople and civil society membersparticipated in the rally in the wake of theCovid-19 pandemic.Chief Adviser of RBS and freedom fighterAkbor Hossain addressed the discussion asthe chief guest with President of theorganisation Advocate zobaydul Islam in thechair.General Secretary of RBS MizanurRahman and former Vice-president ofRangpur Carmichael College Students'Union Alauddin Mian spoke as specialguests. The speakers said the deaf and visionimpaired people are being exploited invarious ways in society.They said the government and societyshould work together to ensure congenialatmosphere for the deaf and vision impairedpeople to properly utilise their talents andabilities.Advocate Islam said the education,academic training and extracurricularactivities being conducted by some NGOs forthe physically challenged, disabled, deaf anddumb and vision impaired population arestill inadequate.He urged the government for expanding itsongoing programmes to ensure education,training and health services for the physicallychallenged, deaf and dumb and visionGaibandha."The average casualtyrate is 2.24 percent in thedivision at present," Drzakirul said.Meanwhile, the numberof Covid-19 cases reached54,878 as 33 new patientswere diagnosed aftertesting 688 samples ofRangpur division at thedaily positivity rate of 4.80percent on Sunday.Earlier, the dailypositivity rates were 3.44percent on Saturday, 5.57percent on Friday, 5.08percent on Thursday, 3.89percent on Wednesday,5.84 percent on Tuesdayand 5.95 percent onMonday last in thedivision."The district-wise breakup of total 54,878 patientsinclude 12,388 of Rangpur,3,748 of Panchagarh, 4,413of Nilphamari, 2,729 ofLalmonirhat, 4,627 ofKurigram, 7,509 ofThakurgaon, 14,616 ofDinajpur and 4,848 ofGaibandha in the division,"he added.Talking to BSSyesterday, DivisionalDirector (Health) Dr MdMotaharul Islam said atotal of 2,78,925 collectedsamples were tested tillSunday, and of them,54,878 were found Covid-19 positive with an averagepositivity rate of 19.67percent here.Since the beginning ofthe pandemic, the numberof healed Covid-19 patientsreached 51,608 withrecovery of 46 moreinfected patients on the dayin the division where theaverage recovery ratecurrently stands at 94.04percent.The 51,608 recoveredpatients include 10,702 ofRangpur, 3,468 ofPanchagarh, 4,300 inNilphamari, 2,605 inLalmonirhat, 4,496 inKurigram, 6,985 ofThakurgaon, 14,277 inDinajpur and 4,775 inComprehensive efforts for developmentof disabled people stressedimpaired population.The chief guest put importance onmainstreaming the people with differenttypes of disabilities to attain the sustainabledevelopment goals by 2030 leaving nonebehind."Engaging comprehensive GO-NGO effortshas become crucial to support the physicallychallenged people to turn them into humanresources for ensuring their development,constitutional rights and social security.Community engagementto prevent Covid-19spread stressedRAJSHAHI: Administrative and otherofficials concerned viewed that communityengagement, particularly in the remote andrural areas, can be the best ways of limitingfurthermore Covid-19 spread, reports BSS.The integration and involvement ofcommunities in COVID-19 prevention andcontrol is a potential and viable strategy inaddressing the pandemic. So, all thegovernment and non-governmentorganizations concerned should comeforward and work together.The discussants came up with theobservation while addressing a divisionallevelplanning and review workshop held atthe office conference hall of Commissioner ofRajshahi division yesterday.The District Information Office hosted themeeting under the C4D programme ofUNICEF to prevent coronavirus infection.Divisional Commissioner Dr HumayunKabir addressed the meeting as chief guestsaying there is no scope of ignoring the issueof Covid-19 amid the present lowering trendof infection and death. He urged allconcerned to expedite the awarenesscampaign against the pandemic as theeducational institutions opened for thegreater interest of the students.Gaibandha.Among the 54,878patients, 41 are undergoingtreatment at isolationunits, including six criticalpatients at ICU beds andtwo at High DependencyUnit beds, after recovery of51,608 patients and 1,230deaths while 1,999 areremaining in homeisolation."Meanwhile, the numberof citizens who got the firstdose of the Covid-19vaccine rose to 28,40,136,and among them,16,56,736 got the seconddose of the jab till Sundayin the division," Dr Islamadded.Chief of DivisionalCoronavirus Service andPrevention Task Force andPrincipal of RangpurMedical College ProfessorDr AKM Nurunnobi Lyzucalled upon everyone tosincerely abide by thehealth directives to preventfurther spread of thedeadly virus.District Rating ChessLeague begins at theinitiative of JoypurhatPolice DepartmentMASRAKUL ALOM, JOYPURHATCORRESPONDENTA week-long DistrictRating Chess League-2021has been launched incollaboration with theoverall management ofJoypurhat District PoliceDepartment, zila KriraSangha and the Joypurhatbranch of Shahjalal IslamiBank Limited on Sunday.Rajshahi Range DeputyInspector General (DIG) ofBangladesh Police MdAbdul Baten BPM, PPMwas the chief guest at theofficial inauguration of theChess League at JoypurhatStadium on Sundayafternoon.JoypurhatSuperintendent of PoliceMasum Ahmed Bhuiyanpresided over the inauguralfunction of the ChessLeague while among othersDistrict Awami LeaguePresident and Chairman ofzila Parishad ArifurRahman Rocket, JointGeneral Secretary ofBangladesh ChessFederation MasudurRahman Mallick, Secretaryof Joypurhat AwamiLeague zakir HasanMandal and JoypurhatPress Club and District BarPresident PresidentAdvocate NipendranathMandal PP were alsopresent at the occasion.
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