Twenty-two people have died from coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, Dr Nasima Sultana, additional director general (administration) of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), says during a briefing.

Buoyed by falling Covid-19 fatality rate across the country, India decides to lift the ban on the export of indigenously-manufactured ventilators.

Mexico has surpassed Britain as the country with the third-highest coronavirus death toll as the pandemic reaches new milestones in Latin America and threatens to disrupt efforts to reopen the region's reeling economies.

Twenty-one people have died from coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, Dr Nasima Sultana, additional director general (administration) of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), says during a briefing.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday postponed a planned easing of the coronavirus lockdown in England after a rise in infections amplified fears of a second deadly surge in Covid-19 cases.

Bangladesh’s GDP which was enjoying an exponential growth of 8.15 percent would be slowing down significantly due to Covid-19. According to the Economist Intelligence unit (EIU), the decline of GDP could lower down to 4 percent. The hardest hit would be the small business sector. This sector contributes 20.25 percent in our GDP growth and accounts for 35-40 percent of our employment. Hence the government and private sector has to take special steps for survival of small enterprises/businesses.

Twenty-eight people have died from coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, Dr Nasima Sultana, additional director general (administration) of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), said during a briefing today.

The daily death toll from coronavirus infections spiked again as authorities reported 48 deaths yesterday, up from 36 on Wednesday.

It remains a mystery why Bangladesh government is still in a fix about allowing a clinical trial of the Chinese Covid-19 vaccine here when health experts are saying the trial can help the country access the life-saving vaccine quickly and build national capacity for advanced research.

Expatriates’ Welfare Minister Imran Ahmed says obtaining coronavirus negative certificates will only be mandatory when destination countries ask for it.

Forty-eight people have died from coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, Dr Nasima Sultana, additional director general (administration) of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), says during a briefing.

One person in the United States died about every minute from Covid-19 as the national death toll surpassed 150,000, the highest in the world.

One in five patients hospitalised in Germany over the coronavirus succumbed to the disease, with the fatality rate rising to 53 percent for those who received ventilation, a study showed Wednesday.

Thirty-five people have died from coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, Dr Nasima Sultana, additional director general (administration) of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), says during a briefing.

Moderna Inc says its experimental Covid-19 vaccine induced a robust immune response and protected against infection in a study on monkeys.

The number of deaths from Covid-19 infection in the country reached the grim milestone of 3,000 yesterday, with 35 new deaths.

Sharmin Jahan, proprietor of Aparajita International, is sent to jail in a case filed over supplying fake N95 masks to the Covid-19 isolation unit of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU).

The number of total deaths with Covid-19 infection in Bangladesh has reached the grim milestone of 3,000 with 35 new deaths.

Former advisor to a caretaker government, AKM Amanul Islam Chowdhury, died from Covid-19. He was 83.

Only with strict adherence to health measures, from wearing masks to avoiding crowds, would the world be able to beat it, Tedros added at a virtual news briefing in Geneva.