Thirty-four 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).

Bhutanese Prime Minister Dr Lotay Tshering returned to his country today and started a 21-day mandatory quarantine.

AstraZeneca’s said its Covid-19 vaccine was 76 percent effective in a new analysis of its US trial - only a tad lower than the level in an earlier report this week criticised for using outdated data.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will bring 12 lakh doses of AstraZeneca vaccine during his upcoming Bangladesh visit as “gift”, Prof ABM Khurshid Alam, director general of health directorate said today.

Amidst a second wave of Covid-19 cases across the country, India has decided to not ramp up vaccine exports and to focus more on supply for its domestic requirement, official sources said today.

Twenty-five people died with Covid-19 infection across the country in 24 hours (till 8 this morning), according to a press release issued by Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Dhaka-7 lawmaker and Awami League leader Haji Salim has tested positive for Covid-19.

AstraZeneca will publish up-to-date results from its major US COVID-19 vaccine trial within 48 hours after health officials publicly criticized the drugmaker for using “outdated information” to show how well the immunization worked.

Eighteen 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).

A top committee of the Indian government today said there is no enhanced risk of blood clotting after being vaccinated with Covid-19 vaccines Covishield and Covaxin so far.

Thirty people died of Covid-19 infection across the country in 24 hours (till 8 this morning), according to a press release issued by Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

The COVID-19 vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca was 79% effective in preventing symptomatic illness a large trial in the United States, Chile and Peru, the company said on Monday, paving the way for it to apply for US approval.

Enamur Rahman, the state minister for disaster management and relief, has tested positive for Covid-19.

News of general holiday over Covid-19 run by different media outlets is false and baseless, health ministry sources said today.

India’s health ministry warned on Sunday that a huge gathering of devotees for a Hindu festival could send coronavirus cases surging, as the country recorded the most new infections in nearly four months.

Twenty-two people died of Covid-19 infection across the country in 24 hours (till 8 this morning), according to a press release issued by Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

The SARS COV-2 has mutated 4,604 times in Bangladesh since the first week of December last year, of which 34 were unique mutations which means they do not match with any other mutation found in the world.

AstraZeneca said on Sunday its COVID-19 vaccine contains no pork-derived ingredients, countering an assertion in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, that the drug violates Islamic law.

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Researchers have developed a new statistical model that predicts which cities are more likely to become infectious disease hotspots, based both on interconnectivity between cities and the idea that some cities are more suitable environments for infection than others.