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Budget deficit to go through the roof

Bangladesh’s budget deficit may shoot to as high as 10 per cent of the GDP in the current fiscal year as the government would have to keep spending more to tackle the brunt of the coronavirus pandemic amid a drastic fall in revenue generation, the World Bank said.  

The Washington-based multilateral lender………

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What is pooled testing for COVID-19 and how can it help fight the virus?

Quest Diagnostics on Saturday received the first emergency authorisation from the US Food and Drug Administration to use pooled testing to help reduce its backlog of COVID-19 tests. The following is a description of how it works and the advantages and disadvantages of pooled testing.

How does pooled testing work?