Sheikh Momin Uddin, managing director of Akij Footwear and SAF Industries Ltd, also the second son of Akij Group’s founder late Sheikh Akij Uddin, has died after coronavirus infection at Ad-Din Hospital in Dhaka. He was 63.

The coronavirus pandemic continues to disrupt life for more than 460,000 Rohingya children living in Cox’s Bazar district, Unicef said today.

42 die, 2,485 infected, 3,784 recover in 24 hours.

China has been giving experimental coronavirus vaccines to groups facing high infection risks since July, a health official tells state media.

Although people are dying with Covid-19 and new cases are being detected everyday, over 72 percent of hospital beds for the infected patients are vacant across the country, according to officials.

Thirty-four people have died from Covid-19 in the country during the last 24 hours, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Religious Affairs Secretary Md Nurul Islam, his wife Feroza Begum and their son have tested positive for Covid-19.

Abdus Shahid, joint chief news editor of private television channel NTV, passed away with Covid-19 infection at Sheikh Russel Gastro Liver Hospital in Dhaka this morning. He was 63.

World Health Organization (WHO) has said children aged 12 and over should wear masks to help tackle the Covid-19 pandemic under the same conditions as adults, while children between six and 11 should wear them on a risk-based approach.

The daily death toll from Covid-19 rose again yesterday.

Five months after Covid-19 cases first emerged in Pabna, the district health authorities say it is much better placed than other districts in terms of number of cases.

The world should be able to rein in the coronavirus pandemic in less than two years, the World Health Organization said, as the number of deaths from the disease surpassed 800,000 around the world yesterday.

Forty-six people have died from Covid-19 in the country during the last 24 hours, reads a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

The World Health Organization hopes the coronavirus pandemic will be shorter than the 1918 Spanish flu and last less than two years, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said, if the world unites and succeeds in finding a vaccine.

Health authorities in China’s capital Beijing have removed a requirement for people to wear masks outdoors, further relaxing rules aimed at preventing the spread the novel coronavirus after the city reported 13 consecutive days without new cases.

China's Sinovac Biotech has committed to provide up to 40 million coronavirus vaccine doses to Indonesia's government between November and March, as the Southeast Asian nation seeks to secure its supply as cases rise unabated.

Britain's economic recovery from the shock of the Covid-19 pandemic has gathered pace, but government borrowing rose past the 2 trillion pound ($2.6 trillion) mark and fears of future job losses are mounting.

Thirty-nine people have died from Covid-19 in the country during the last 24 hours, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Five Covid-19 positive patients died in Bogura in the last 24 hours.

Mexico will receive at least 2,000 doses of Russia's potential Covid-19 vaccine, dubbed 'Sputnik V', to test among its population, a senior Mexican government official says.