President Joe Biden has announced that the US will give away 80 million Covid-19 vaccines. Previously, the US announced the donation of 60 million AstraZeneca vaccine doses.

India's total coronavirus cases surged past the 25 million mark on today, boosted by 263,533 new infections over the last 24 hours, while deaths from Covid-19 rose by a record 4,329.

The European Union's drug agency on Monday approved the storage of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine in fridges for up to a month, in a move that should boost its rollout across the bloc.

The US government is exploring the possibilities of producing vaccines in Bangladeshi pharmaceutical companies, US Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl R Miller has said.

Bleeding and blood clotting cases following Covid-19 vaccination using Oxford-AstraZeneca’s Covishield jabs in India are “minuscule” in number, the Health Ministry said today, quoting a report submitted by the National Adverse Event Following Immunization (AEFI) Committee.

32 dead, 698 infected in 24 hours

Singapore warned on Sunday that the new coronavirus variants, such as the one first detected in India, were affecting more children, as the city-state prepares to shut most schools from this week and draws up plans to vaccinate youngsters.

The government is concerned over the second doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said today.

Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline’s potential COVID-19 vaccine triggered strong immune responses in all adult age groups in preliminary trials, boosting optimism the shot may join the fight against the pandemic this year.

The head of UNICEF on Monday asked G7 countries to donate supplies to the COVAX vaccine-sharing scheme as an emergency measure to address a severe shortfall caused by disruption to Indian vaccine exports.

Over 100 Dhaka-bound passenger buses from different districts of the northern region were sent back from the western side of Bangabandhu Bridge in Sirajganj today as they were travelling in violation of the ban on inter-district public transport.

As Covid-19 cases keep rising, over 162 million people have so far been infected with the deadly virus around the world.

The government has extended closure of all secondary and higher secondary educational institutions till May 29, as a preventive measure against further spread of coronavirus

India will have 51.6 crore doses of Covid-19 vaccine procured by the end of July this year, including the 18 crore doses already administered among people, the country’s Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said.

The World Health Organization urged rich countries on Friday to reconsider plans to vaccinate children and instead donate Covid-19 shots to the COVAX scheme that shares them with poorer nations.

India and the United States today agreed to work towards increasing Covid-19 vaccine availability and saving lives.

The World Health Organization said today is in touch with the United States about sharing vaccines with the international COVAX scheme, which distributes doses to poorer countries.

Another coronavirus positive Bangladeshi, who arrived from India through Benapole land port recently, has fled from the coronavirus ward of Jashore General Hospital.

Twenty-six 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).

Facing Covid-19 vaccine crunch at present, India can potentially get 216 crore doses in five months between August and December -- enough to vaccinate its entire adult population, a senior official of the government has said.