With coronavirus infections rising in the country again, Bangladesh Police have planned a series of actions to prevent it.

Sixteen people have died from Covid-19 in 24 hours (till 8 am today), according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

BNP’s Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi was admitted to Square Hospital in Dhaka with Covid-19 infection this morning.

Covid-19 appears likely to develop into a seasonal disease, the United Nations said Thursday (March 18), cautioning though against relaxing pandemic-related measures simply based on meteorological factors.

Taiwan has completed checks on its first batch of AstraZeneca Plc COVID-19 vaccines and the first shots may start being administered from Monday, Health Minister Chen Shih-chung said.

The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for Covid-19, the illness caused by the virus.

Ten European Union returnees have so far been detected with the new strain of Covid-19 that was first reported in the UK, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said today.

Bangladesh recorded 11 coronavirus deaths and 1,865 fresh cases in 24 hours (till 8am today).

Former US President Donald Trump again urged people to be vaccinated against the novel coronavirus, saying he would recommend vaccination to “a lot of people that don’t want to get it, and a lot of those people voted for me.”

The Philippines’ coronavirus task force said it will suspend the arrival of foreigners and some returning citizens as the Southeast Asian country battles a renewed surge in Covid-19 cases and increasing infections of new variants.

Comments by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) on the AstraZeneca vaccine are “encouraging”, French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi said.

Moderna Inc has begun dosing patients in a mid-to-late stage study of its COVID-19 vaccine, mRNA-1273, in children aged six months to less than 12 years, the company said on Tuesday.

Newly elected president of Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), Abdul Matin Khasru, MP, was admitted to the Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka this morning after being infected with Covid-19.

Twenty-six people have died from Covid-19 in 24 hours (till 8 am today), according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Bangladesh is the highest recipient of India-made Covid-19 vaccines among a group of 70 countries.

As some European countries suspended the use of Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines due to blood clot scare, India’s apex committee on post-vaccination adverse effects will examine later this week the data related to Covishield and Covaxin vaccines.

The World Health Organization appealed to countries not to pause vaccination campaigns after two more European nations and one in Asia joined a handful which have suspended use of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine over safety fears.

Facebook is adding informational labels to posts about vaccines as it expands efforts to counter COVID-19-related misinformation flourishing on its platforms.

China today offered to provide 100,000 doses of Chinese coronavirus vaccine to Bangladesh for emergency use.

Twenty-six people have died from Covid-19 in 24 hours (till 8 am today), according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).