Mohammad Al-Masum Molla

Amid uncertainty over receiving the next consignment of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from Serum Institute of India (SII), the government has moved to procure vaccines from other inventors.

The government has requested AstraZeneca to authorise production of its Covid-19 vaccine in Bangladesh.

Ambassadors and high commissioners of nine diplomatic missions in Bangladesh are going to Bhasan Char today to see the facilities offered for Rohingyas at first hand.

Internationally renowned Bangladeshi actor Jaya Ahsan was elated after winning the Best Actress (Critics) honour at the Joy Filmfare Awards (Bangla) last night for her roles in "Bijoya" and "Robibar" – which she said were as different from each other as the north and south poles.

As the country reported a record number of daily Covid-19 cases yesterday, the expert committee of the government recommended “partial or modified” lockdown of “high-risk” areas.

The government has taken steps to increase the number of beds in public hospitals and open temporary healthcare facilities in Dhaka to accommodate the rising number of Covid-19 patients.

Wrapping up a three-day visit to Bhasan Char, a UN delegation said it wants to continue dialogue with the government.

Dreaming of taking this part of the world at the highest echelon in the global stage, Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty plans to pass on his wealth of knowledge to young musicians of Bangladesh and India.

The country’s stock of Covid-19 vaccine today is getting an additional 12 lakh Oxford-AstraZeneca shots given by the Indian government as a gift.

World leaders have frequently used the word “war” to describe the fight against the coronavirus primarily to emphasise how precious every second, every minute or every strategic decision is in combating the invisible killer.

Twenty-eight years have passed since the country first detected arsenic in water, but neither the extent nor the intensity of the chemical element was reduced, say experts.

Two major public hospitals in Dhaka had concentrations of harmful air pollutants 10 times higher than the permissible limit in winter, finds a new study.

Air quality of Bangladesh was the worst in the world, while its capital Dhaka was the second most air polluted city in 2020, said a global report.

Health officials have detected over 10 people with the UK variant of the coronavirus.

Dr Farhad Ali Khan, a Bangladeshi pharmaceutical physician and director of epidemiology at AstraZeneca, Sweden, has said it will take at least two more years to say when the novel coronavirus is likely to be totally eradicated from the planet.

Bangladesh saw destruction or degradation of 66 square kilometres of tropical rainforest, roughly the size of Narayanganj city, over the last 17 years, according to a report by the Rainforest Foundation Norway (RFN).

With the number of new cases rising for a week, health officials and experts fear that the Covid-19 outbreak will spread again if people do not maintain social distancing and wear masks.

The UK variant of coronavirus, also known as N501Y.V1, has been found in Bangladesh, health officials told The Daily Star last night.

One year into the detection of the first cases of coronavirus in the country, Health Minister Zahid Maleque thinks the tumultuous year of the pandemic exposed some of the weaknesses in the healthcare services.

One year on, Bangladesh is well and truly on the recovery trail from the deep impacts the coronavirus pandemic has inflicted on life and livelihood.