Infectious disease experts are weighing the need for booster shots of the Pfizer/BioNTech, or Moderna mRNA-based vaccines for Americans who received Johnson & Johnson's one-dose vaccine due to the increasing prevalence of the more contagious Delta coronavirus variant.

A total of 102 people have died of Covid-19 in Chapainawabganj so far, the district’s Civil Surgeon Zahid Nazrul Chowdhury said today.

“Covid has killed my parents. I've become an orphan,” said a distraught 14-year-old Sajjad Hossain.

Nine Covid-19 patients died in two Khulna hospitals during 24 hours till this morning.

Seventeen people -- eight male and nine female -- died at the Covid unit of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) in 24 hours till this morning.

The US drug regulator on Friday added a warning to the literature that accompanies Pfizer Inc/BioNTech and Moderna Covid-19 vaccine shots to indicate the rare risk of heart inflammation after its use.

Rich countries are opening up societies and vaccinating young people who are not at great risk from COVID-19, while the poorest countries cruelly lack doses, the World Health Organization said on Friday, condemning a global failure.

Two hotels in Sylhet city have been fined for hosting weddings with more than 100 guests in violation of coronavirus restrictions.

The government will impose a "strict” countrywide lockdown from Monday, which will continue for the next seven days.

Only coronavirus patients will be treated at Kushtia General Hospital as it has been declared a corona-dedicated hospital.

More corpses are washing up on the banks of the Ganges in India's most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, as rains swell the river and expose bodies buried in shallow graves during the peak of the country's latest wave of coronavirus infections.

One hundred and eight people have died from Covid-19 in 24 hours till 8am today, said a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

The World Health Organization (WHO) forecasts that people most vulnerable to Covid-19, such as the elderly, will need to get an annual vaccine booster to be protected against variants, an internal document seen by Reuters shows.

The virus that causes Covid-19 could have started spreading in China as early as October 2019, two months before the first case was identified in the central city of Wuhan, a new study showed on Friday (June 25).

A 72-year-old British man tested positive for coronavirus for 10 months in what is thought to be the longest recorded case of continuous infection, researchers said on Thursday (June 24).

Nearly all COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. now are in people who weren’t vaccinated, a staggering demonstration of how effective the shots have been and an indication that deaths per day — now down to under 300 — could be practically zero if everyone eligible got the vaccine.

Terming the recommendation of shutdown logical, State Minister for Public Administration Farhad Hossain said the government has a preparation like this and the announcement of the shutdown may come anytime, reports Bangla daily Prothom Alo.

Amid the rise in Covid-19 cases triggered by the transmission of the Delta variant, experts predict that Bangladesh may see a peak in the current wave of the virus in the third week of July.

At least 13 more Bangladeshis, who were stuck in India, returned home through the Gede-Darshana border in Chuadanga today despite a rapid surge in Covid-19 cases across the country.

The National Technical Advisory Committee (NTAC) on Covid-19 today recommended “complete nationwide shutdown” for 14 days to curb the surge of infections.