Bangladesh will receive 20 lakh doses of Sinopharm vaccine from China tomorrow.

Indonesia is now fighting a "worst-case scenario" epidemic, a senior minister said on Thursday, adding the government was preparing for a further spike in coronavirus cases as the more virulent Delta variant spreads.

Malaysia's health ministry on Thursday said the country will stop administering the COVID-19 vaccine produced by China's Sinovac (SVA.O) once its supplies end, as it has a sufficient number of other vaccines for its programme.

Pfizer on Thursday said it was only in talks with the Thai government, after a Thai hospital group said it was signing a deal for 20 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines.

The variant’s spread, along with increased social mobility and the inconsistent use of proven public health measures, is driving an increase in both case numbers and deaths, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday.

Military-ruled Myanmar reported record numbers of coronavirus cases and deaths on Wednesday, as it suffers its most severe wave of infections so far.

Europe's drug regulator said on Wednesday the Delta variant of the coronavirus will account for 90% of strains in circulation in the European Union by the end of August, with both doses of a COVID-19 vaccine needed to protect against the fast-spreading variant.

India has capped at 70 percent the trade margins of five medical devices commonly used by Covid-19 patients in order to bring down maximum retail prices.

The Covid-19 curve in the US is rising again after months of decline, with the number of new cases per day doubling over the past three weeks, driven by the fast-spreading delta variant, lagging vaccination rates and Fourth of July gatherings.

There is a chance that Covid-19 transmissions will rise since the ongoing lockdown has been withdrawn for a week, health officials said today.

Malaysia reported 11,079 new coronavirus infections on Tuesday, the most number of cases recorded in a single day since the start of the pandemic.

India’s first Covid-19 patient—a woman medico -- has tested positive again for the virus more than a year after recovering from the first bout of the disease in the southern state of Kerala, state health authorities said today.

Global Covid-19 caseload has now surged past 187 million, as the second wave of Covid-19 continues its onslaught across the world even with mass inoculations underway.

Australian scientists say they have developed the "holy grail" of blood sugar testing for diabetics, a non-invasive strip that checks glucose levels via saliva.

The US Food and Drug Administration is expected to announce a new warning on Johnson & Johnson's coronavirus vaccine related to a rare autoimmune disorder, the Washington Post reported on Monday, citing four people familiar with the matter.

The World Health Organization's chief scientist on Monday advised against people mixing and matching Covid-19 vaccines from different manufacturers, calling it a "dangerous trend" since there was little data available about the health impact.

Thailand's health ministry said on Sunday more than 600 medical workers who received two doses of China's Sinovac vaccine (SVA.O) have been infected with COVID-19, as authorities weigh giving booster doses to raise immunity.

Since January 2021, Bangladesh has confirmed the presence of five Covid-19 variant strains -- Alpha (B.1.1.7) aka the “UK variant”, Beta (B.1.351) aka the “South Africa variant”, (B.1525), Gamma (P.1) aka the “Nigeria variant”, and Delta (B.1.617.2) aka the “India variant”. These variants raise concern because of their high transmissibility and infection potential. Public Health England reports that the Alpha variant, for example, is approximately 25 to 40 percent more transmissible than the first recorded strain of the Covid-19 virus.

A 90-year-old woman who died after falling ill with Covid-19 was infected with both the Alpha and Beta variants of the coronavirus at the same time, researchers in Belgium said Sunday, adding that the rare phenomenon may be underestimated.

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