India's Biological E. will produce the Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) COVID-19 vaccine alongside its own candidate, its managing director told Reuters on Tuesday, which could boost the country's overall supplies amid a shortage.

The global death toll from Covid-19 is approaching 3.4 million, as the race for mass inoculations continues.

The highly contagious Indian variant of Covid-19 has been detected in samples of three more Bangladeshis, who returned from India, as per the Genome Center of Jashore University of Science and Technology.

Bangladesh today sent medicine, injections and other medical supplies worth Tk 20 crore to India through Benapole land port this afternoon as support during the neighbouring country's devastating Covid-19 situation.

Thirty people have died from Covid-19 during 24 hours (till 8:00am today), according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

President Joe Biden has announced that the US will give away 80 million Covid-19 vaccines. Previously, the US announced the donation of 60 million AstraZeneca vaccine doses.

India's total coronavirus cases surged past the 25 million mark on today, boosted by 263,533 new infections over the last 24 hours, while deaths from Covid-19 rose by a record 4,329.

The European Union's drug agency on Monday approved the storage of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine in fridges for up to a month, in a move that should boost its rollout across the bloc.

The US government is exploring the possibilities of producing vaccines in Bangladeshi pharmaceutical companies, US Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl R Miller has said.

Bleeding and blood clotting cases following Covid-19 vaccination using Oxford-AstraZeneca’s Covishield jabs in India are “minuscule” in number, the Health Ministry said today, quoting a report submitted by the National Adverse Event Following Immunization (AEFI) Committee.

32 dead, 698 infected in 24 hours

Singapore warned on Sunday that the new coronavirus variants, such as the one first detected in India, were affecting more children, as the city-state prepares to shut most schools from this week and draws up plans to vaccinate youngsters.

The government is concerned over the second doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said today.

Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline’s potential COVID-19 vaccine triggered strong immune responses in all adult age groups in preliminary trials, boosting optimism the shot may join the fight against the pandemic this year.

Working long hours is killing hundreds of thousands of people a year in a worsening trend that may accelerate further due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization said on Monday.

The head of UNICEF on Monday asked G7 countries to donate supplies to the COVAX vaccine-sharing scheme as an emergency measure to address a severe shortfall caused by disruption to Indian vaccine exports.

The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) today requested those who left Dhaka for Eid to return after 14 days.

Twenty-five people have died from Covid-19 during 24 hours (till 8:00am today), according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

As Covid-19 cases keep rising, over 162 million people have so far been infected with the deadly virus around the world.

Bodies of COVID-19 victims have been found dumped in some Indian rivers, a state government letter seen by Reuters says, in the first official acknowledgement of the alarming practice, which it said may stem from poverty and fear of the disease in remote areas.