Shoppers today flocked different markets and shopping centres in the capital after government relaxed restrictions on shops and malls from today.

The government is actively considering imposing “full lockdown” for one week from April 14, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said today.

A panel of Indian experts is investigating if there are any domestic cases of blood clotting, even mild ones, as a side effect of the two Covid-19 vaccines being administered in the country.

England’s fast rollout of Covid-19 vaccines prevented over 10,000 deaths of people aged 60 and older by the end of March, according to an analysis by Public Health England.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday rejected calls from states to offer coronavirus vaccinations to younger people to help contain a record surge in cases.

The World Health Organization has rejected Serum Institute of India's proposal seeking extension of the shelf life of Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, Covishield, from six to nine months, citing insufficient data, sources said today.

India today made it clear that there was no ban on the export of Covid-19 vaccines but the supply of the jabs would continue while prioritising India’s domestic requirements.

Chief of Army Staff of Indian Army Gen Manoj Mukund Naravane handed over 1,00,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine to Bangladesh Army Chief General Aziz Ahmed today.

Seventy-four 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).

Serum Institute of India (SII) has been served a legal notice by AstraZeneca over vaccine supply delays.

At least 48 people involved with country's first metro rail project got infected with Covid-19 in last seven days.

The government has asked everyone not to hold any mass gathering and outdoor celebration on Pahela Baishakh, the first day of the Bangla calendar, to curb the spread of Covid-19.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern temporarily suspended entry for all travellers from India, including its own citizens, following a high number of positive coronavirus cases arriving from that country.

Australia has no current plans to change the rollout of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Thursday, after Europe’s drug regulator found possible links between rare blood clots and the vaccine.

Italy recommended that AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 shot only be used on those over 60 and Britain that people under 30 should get an alternative, due to possible links between the vaccine and very rare cases of blood clots.

Spain will only give AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine to people over 60 years old after European and British regulators found a potential link between the shot and rare brain blood clots.

A recent study by the icddr,b revealed that the South African variant of the novel coronavirus is dominant in Dhaka.

Britain began using Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday in Wales just as its rollout of other shots fell to their lowest level this year due to a supply crunch caused by manufacturing problems at AstraZeneca.

A total of 260 foreign workers of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant, who returned from their home countries -- mostly from Russia -- were sent to institutional quarantine yesterday.

63 dead, 7,626 infected in 24-hours