94 dead, 4,192 infected, 5,915 recover in 24 hours

Fazle Hossain Badsha, lawmaker from Rajshahi-2 (Rajshahi metropolitan city), who had tested positive for coronavirus infection earlier, was brought to Dhaka to be admitted to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital today.

India reported more than two lakh fresh Covid-19 cases in a single day, the highest so far, and 1,038 new deaths in the same time span amidst an increasingly grim picture of the disease.

Federal prosecutors in the Brazilian state of Roraima are investigating reports that illegally-mined gold is being exchanged for Covid-19 vaccines in the Yanomami indigenous reserve, the prosecutors office told Reuters on Wednesday.

More than 60 former heads of state, including former leaders of Britain and France, and over 100 Nobel Prize winners called on US President Joe Biden to back a waiver of intellectual property rules for Covid-19 vaccines.

Although the government instructed that a maximum of 20 people will be able to attend Tarabi prayers at a time in a bid to contain Coronavirus infection, many mosques in the capital didn’t follow the directives.

On the first day of the seven-day “strict lockdown” today, mobile courts in Khulna fined 85 people for defying the lockdown.

India has decided to ramp up the manufacture of Remdesivir, which is used to treat coronavirus, to nearly 78 lakh vials a month and ordered diversion of four lakh vials meant for export to the domestic market in order to cope with the spike in new cases.

Awami League lawmaker and president of Supreme Court Bar Association Abdul Matin Khasru died today at Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka.

Ninety-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).

Prof Shamsuzzaman Khan, president of Bangla Academy, passed away this afternoon with Covid-19 infection.

Moderna Inc said on Tuesday that its Covid-19 vaccine still showed strong protection against the illness six months after people received their second shot, with efficacy of more than 90 percent against all cases of Covid-19 and more than 95 percent against severe Covid-19.

The World Health Organization called on Tuesday for a halt to the sale of live wild mammals in food markets to prevent the emergence of new diseases such as Covid-19.

Sixty-nine 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).

Awami League lawmaker and Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Abdul Matin Khasru, who was diagnosed with Covid-19, has been put on life support at Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka.

India reported 161,736 new coronavirus infections today, hitting the world’s highest daily tally once again, for a total of 13.69 million cases, health ministry data showed.

India's drug regulator has given the clearance for restricted emergency use of Russian Covid-19 vaccine "Sputnik V", paving the way for a third vaccine against novel coronavirus as the country tries to check a surging second wave of the virus.

A Munich-based company hopes to help usher in a new era of coronavirus testing with an eye scan that, it says, takes just three minutes to identify carriers of the disease and has a hit rate of 95%.

A committee of experts of the Indian government recommended approval of Russian Covid-19 vaccine Sputnik V for emergency use today in the country, which is reeling from an unprecedented surge of daily cases of the virus.

Eighty-three 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).