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Benefits that women are getting in fighting against corona

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Published: 12:29, 23 June 2020   Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
Benefits that women are getting in fighting against corona

More men are being infected with coronavirus than women and they are higher risk of death.

Dr Nasima Sultana, additional director general (administration) of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) revealed some reasons behind this during the regular briefing on Tuesday.

She said statistics around the world also show that men are at higher risk of infection and death. Those being infected are becoming more serious.

Quoting reports of sciencedirect.com, she said there are several reasons behind this. The reasons are: most of the men have been infected with non-communicable diseases from earlier. They suffer from various diseases including hypertension and diabetes. Besides, there are also risks in men’s lifestyle. Most of the men have tobacco and alcohol. As a result, the number of infections for male is higher than that of female and they are at higher risk of death. However, women have more immunity genetically. Women get the benefits for XX chromosome.

Bangladesh recorded 43 more deaths from coronavirus in the last 24 hours, taking the number of fatalities to 1,545.

As many as 3,412 people also tested positive from the coronavirus infection over the same period in the country.

With this development, the number of all confirmed cases so far jumped to 119,198.


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