No patient will be deprived of treatment till an inch of space in hospitals is vacant, Health Minister Zahid Maleque today said.

India widened the Covid-19 vaccination coverage by starting inoculation of all above the age of 45 from today.

Authorities have announced a two-week closure of the Kuakata tourist spot following an alarming spike in the spread of Covid-19 across the country.

The company at the center of quality problems that led Johnson & Johnson to discard an unknown amount of its coronavirus vaccine has a string of citations from US health officials for quality control problems.

French President Emmanuel Macron has ordered France into its third national lockdown and said schools would close for three weeks as he sought to push back a third wave of COVID-19 infections that threatens to overwhelm hospitals.

Health Minister Zahid Maleque said the Dhaka North City Corporation kitchen market in Mohakhali will be turned into a makeshift hospital dedicated for novel coronavirus patients.

As Covid-19 infections increase in the country, hospitals are becoming full of coronavirus-positive patients and getting an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) bed has become uncertain for those who need it.

There is no uncertainty about getting the vaccine from the Serum Institute of India and the second dose will be administered as per schedule, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said today.

Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) today imposed a ban on motorcycles operating under ride-sharing services to ensure health safety guidelines and social distancing.

Fifty-two 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).

Mufti Muhammad Waqqas, a member of the central advisory council of Hefajat-e Islam and president of a faction of Jamiat Ulamaye Islam, died of Covid-19 at a Dhaka hospital today. He was 74.

A mobile court in Sylhet sentenced two UK returnees to seven days’ imprisonment last night for not abiding by mandatory institutional quarantine, enforced to curb Covid-19 spread.

A critical component of the immune system known as T cells that respond to fight infection from the original version of the novel coronavirus appear to also protect against three of the most concerning new virus variants, according to a US laboratory study released on Tuesday.

Data was withheld from World Health Organization investigators who travelled to China to research the origins of the coronavirus epidemic, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.

Experts say the 18-point directive that the government issued on Monday to curb the rapid surge in Covid cases is not only a delayed response but it also lacks clarity.

Data was withheld from World Health Organization investigators who travelled to China to research the origins of the coronavirus epidemic, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said today.

India’s drug regulator has allowed the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to be used for up to nine months from its manufacture date, as opposed to the prescribed six months, according to a document reviewed by Reuters and a source.

Several Asian countries sought alternative sources for Covid-19 inoculations on Tuesday after export restrictions by manufacturer India left a World Health Organization-backed global vaccine sharing programme short of supplies.

India’s Covid-19 situation is turning from “bad to worse,” a senior government official said on Wednesday, as infections surge across several states.

Forty-five people have died from Covid-19 during 24 hours -- for the second consecutive day -- today (till 8am), according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).