A liquid oxygen plant was inaugurated today at the Chapainawabganj Sadar Hospital for coronavirus affected patients.

District administrations of Rajshahi and Naogaon have imposed restrictions on all night-time outdoor activities, seven days from midnight.

34 deaths, 1,988 cases recorded in a day

Border areas of Satkhira district have been put on high alert considering a surge in Covid-19 cases in neighbouring India.

Cities in China’s most populous province of Guangdong have locked down compounds and streets and required negative COVID-19 test results for some travellers as local health officials sought to control the outbreaks.

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.

The local administration yesterday extended the ongoing lockdown in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf upazila as well as the five Rohingya camps in Ukhiya and Teknaf in an effort to break the chain of Covid-19 transmission.

Britain recorded no new deaths within 28 days of a positive COVID-19 test on Tuesday.

The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday it has approved a Covid-19 vaccine made by drugmaker Sinovac Biotech for emergency use listing, paving the way for a second Chinese shot to be used in poor countries.

The foreign ministry said today that a section of the international media and civil society organisations were campaigning against Bhasan Char and Rohingya relocation with “distorted information misrepresenting the facts”.

UN Refugee Agency has urged immediate and stronger support for the COVAX initiative for the refugees and asylum seekers, including the Rohingyas in Bangladesh and the Asia-Pacific as Covid-19 is raging in many parts of the world, especially in South and Southeast Asia.

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).

The United States has welcomed the arrival of 106,000 doses of Pfizer/BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine to Bangladesh saying the US, Bangladesh and global partners are working closely together to combat this pandemic.

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.

36 dead, 1,710 infected in 24 hours

Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque today said around five crore people need to be vaccinated against Covid-19.

Twelve among 24 people who have been diagnosed with Covid-19 in Moulvibazar in the last two days till Sunday, have come from Chapainawabganj, said Moulvibazar Civil Surgeon Chowdhury Jalal Uddin Murshed.

Authorities today extended the strict lockdown in Chapainawabganj amid the spread of Indian Covid-19 variant in the border district.