43 dead, 1,447 infected

China wants to deliver second consignment of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines as part of gifts to Bangladesh by June 13.

China has approved emergency use of Sinovac Biotech’s (SVA.O) COVID-19 vaccine in people aged between three and 17, its chairman Yin Weidong told state TV late on Friday.

Authorities in Satkhira today imposed a week-long lockdown in the district, following a sudden spike in Covid-19 cases. The decision has been taken to break the chain of coronavirus transmission after the positivity rate in the district was found to be 53 percent, officials said.

The European Union on Friday submitted a plan to the World Trade Organization that it believes will more effectively broaden supply of Covid-19 vaccines than the intellectual property (IP) rights waiver backed by the United States.

Serum Institute of India has got Drug Controller General of India's green signal to manufacture Russia’s Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine in the country for examination, test and analysis with certain conditions, official sources said today.

A new outbreak of Covid-19 is growing near Myanmar's northwestern border with India, bringing the sharpest increase in cases since the military coup in February led to a collapse in health services and the testing programme.

Australia's Victoria state authorities said on Friday they had detected the highly infectious Delta Covid-19 virus variant for the first time in the latest outbreak in Melbourne, stoking concerns of a major spike in cases.

It would not be right to talk about the supply of Covid-19 vaccines to Bangladesh and Nepal at a time when India is in the middle of ramping up its production to cater to domestic demand, said Indian Ministry of External Affairs spokesman Arindam Bagchi today.

The government will expand health insurance for people living below the poverty line, said Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal while presenting the national budget today.

Thirty people have died from Covid-19 in 24 hours (till 8am today), according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

The finance ministry has proposed a block allocation worth Tk 10,000 crore to meet the expenses related to unanticipated emergency requirements, like the budget of the previous fiscal.

Nine more persons died at the coronavirus unit of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital over 24 hours till 9am today, raising the district’s Covid-19 and suspected death toll to 77 in last 11 days.

34 deaths, 1,988 cases recorded in a day

Israel's Health Ministry said on Tuesday it found the small number of heart inflammation cases observed mainly in young men who received Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine in Israel were likely linked to their vaccination.

The United States will announce in the next two weeks how it will sell and distribute 80 million Covid-19 vaccine doses it has pledged globally, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday.

A 41-year-old man in China's eastern province of Jiangsu has been confirmed as the first human case of infection with the H10N3 strain of bird flu, China's National Health Commission (NHC) said on Tuesday.

Forty-one people have died from Covid-19 during 24 hours (till 8am today), according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Around 10 countries, including South Korea and Britain, continued to express doubts and asked for more time to study the new South Africa/India proposal.

The World Health Organization is announcing a new nomenclature for the Covid-19 variants that were previously — and somewhat uncomfortably — known either by their technical letter-number codes or by the countries in which they first appeared.