Australia has no current plans to change the rollout of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Thursday, after Europe’s drug regulator found possible links between rare blood clots and the vaccine.

Spain will only give AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine to people over 60 years old after European and British regulators found a potential link between the shot and rare brain blood clots.

Several European countries are considering mixing up COVID-19 vaccines for citizens who received a first dose of AstraZeneca’s shot, an unprecedented move that highlights challenges for governments struggling to tame fresh rises in infections.

Britain began using Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday in Wales just as its rollout of other shots fell to their lowest level this year due to a supply crunch caused by manufacturing problems at AstraZeneca.

A total of 260 foreign workers of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant, who returned from their home countries -- mostly from Russia -- were sent to institutional quarantine yesterday.

63 dead, 7,626 infected in 24-hours

Isolated North Korea has continued to claim a perfect record in keeping out the coronavirus in its latest report to the World Health Organization.

Chief executive officer of Serum Institute of India (SII) has said the company needs Rs 3,000 crore to scale up its production capacity of Covid-19 vaccine “Covishield”.

One in three people who overcome Covid-19 suffer from a neurological or psychiatric diagnosis six months on, according to the largest study so far published on the mental toll that long-Covid takes on survivors.

Singapore will next month accept visitors who use a mobile travel pass containing digital certificates for Covid-19 tests and vaccines, its aviation regulator said on Monday, becoming one of the first countries to adopt the initiative.

The government will start administering the second dose of Covid-19 vaccine from April 8.

66 dead, 7,213 infected in 24 hours

Grappling with the deadlier second wave of coronavirus, India is planning to double its monthly Covid-19 vaccine production to 140 million doses, health ministry officials of the country said.

Those who have received the first dose of Covid-19 vaccine will start receiving SMS for the second dose from today.

Fifty-two 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).

The government has enough stock to begin administering second dose of Covid-19 vaccine and will begin inoculation on scheduled time, April 8.

Whether the ongoing government-imposed restrictions would be prolonged or not will depend on the Covid-19 infection rate in the country, director general of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said today.

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

The government will bring 6.80 crore doses of Covid-19 vaccine, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal told the parliament today.

During the second wave in England, SARS-CoV-2 infection and related hospital admission (but not ICU admission or death) were slightly elevated among younger adults who lived with children.