Launches have started operating from Barishal and are charging double the usual fares and are failing to follow any hygiene rules.

Sylhet Osmani Medical College Hospital will be turned into a 2000-bed hospital from the existing 900-bed and a medical oxygen plant will be set up at the hospital to handle the growing number Covid-19 patients in the district.

Authorities have put Chapainawabganj district under a 7-day strict lockdown following a surge in Covid-19 infections.

Twenty-five 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).

People are returning without getting Covid-19 vaccine from all the vaccination centres in Patuakhali due to unavailability of shots.

Dogs can be trained to detect more than 90 percent of Covid-19 infections even when patients are asymptomatic, according to research published Monday, which authors hope could help replace the need to quarantine new arrivals.

The milestone, as recorded by India's health ministry, comes as slowed vaccine deliveries have marred the country's fight against the pandemic, forcing many to miss their shots, and a rare but fatal fungal infection affecting Covid-19 patients has worried doctors.

Three researchers from China's Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) sought hospital care in November 2019, months before China disclosed the Covid-19 pandemic, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing a previously undisclosed US intelligence report.

At least 88 more Bangladeshis, who were stuck in India, returned home through the Gede-Darshana border in Chuadanga today.

Twenty-eight 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).

People are returning without getting their second dose of Covid-19 vaccine from vaccination centres in Chuadanga, despite receiving SMS, due to unavailability of shots.

A double dose of COVID-19 vaccines is almost as effective against the fast-spreading variant of the coronavirus first identified in India as it is against Britain’s dominant strain, English health officials said on Saturday.

An Indian former hospital worker with no medical education is running a small unlicensed clinic, tending to patients with breathing difficulties and checking their oxygen levels as they lie on cots on the mud floor.

In less than a month, the Covid-19 cluster at Changi Airport has swelled to more than 100 people, including airport workers whose jobs did not require them to interact with passengers, family members of front-line staff and visitors.

A 32-year-old woman died of mucormycosis, commonly associated with Covid-19 infection, while undergoing treatment at a hospital in Kolkata in the first instance of death due to “black fungus” in West Bengal, a state Health Department official said today.

Amid a surge in Covid-19 cases in the region, a 10-day complete lockdown has been imposed in Teknaf upazila and a week-long restriction has been announced in five Rohingya camps of Ukhiya-Teknaf.

Twenty-six 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).

The price of India’s first home-based rapid antigen testing (RAT) kit for Covid-19 has been fixed at Rs 250 and will be available in chemist shops and online without prescription, the manufacturer has said.

Two children, who returned from India, tested positive for Covid-19.

Inefficiency in preparing documents related to vaccine purchase from China and Russia is causing a bit of delay in getting them, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen said today. The minister also said health ministry is behind the delay in this case.