Reeling under an unabated sharp rise in Covid-19 cases, the southern Indian state of Kerala will enforce a two-day lockdown on July 31 and August 1 while the Indian Health Ministry is rushing a high-level multi-disciplinary team there to help contain the alarming spread of the disease.

Bangladesh will resume vaccination with AstraZeneca jabs soon, DGHS spokesperson Prof Dr Nazmul Islam said on Wednesday.

The US will prioritise Bangladesh in its plan for producing Covid-19 vaccines and therapeutics and expanding production of PPE, a senior US official has said.

 The authorities will resume administering AstraZeneca vaccine jabs soon, DGHS spokesperson Prof Dr Nazmul Islam said yesterday.

Pfizer Inc on Wednesday raised its forecast for full-year sales of the COVID-19 vaccine that it developed with Germany's BioNTech by nearly 29% to $33.5 billion, as nations stock up on doses for the rest of the year.

Facebook has partnered with Bangladesh’s ICT Division and the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to launch the “Covid-19 Vaccine Finder”, a new tool to help Bangladeshis confirm their eligibility and identify nearby places to get the vaccine.

China's Sinopharm vaccine could soon be made available in Singapore, with several private healthcare groups already taking steps to secure doses of the jab.

Authorities plan to set up at least nine more Covid-19 vaccination centres in Sylhet as the city grapples with a devastating second wave of the pandemic.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday reaffirmed her government’s stance to ensure Covid-19 vaccine doses for all.

The government will launch a mass vaccination campaign at union level from August 7, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said today.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today reaffirmed her government's stance to ensure Covid-19 vaccine doses for all.

Antibodies triggered by Sinovac Biotech's Covid-19 vaccine decline below a key threshold from around six months after a second dose for most recipients, although a third shot could have a strong boosting effect, according to a lab study.

A mixed vaccination of first AstraZeneca (AZN.L) and then a Pfizer (PFE.N) COVID-19 shot boosted neutralizing antibody levels by six times compared with two AstraZeneca doses, a study from South Korea showed.

As coronavirus cases ravaged India this spring, Anil Sharma visited his 24-year-old son Saurav at a private hospital in northwest New Delhi every day for more than two months. In May, as India’s new COVID-19 cases broke global records to reach 400,000 a day, Saurav was put on a ventilator.

The government is planning to inoculate one crore people with Covid-19 vaccines each month, says Health minister Zahid Maleque.

There will be no space left in the hospitals for patients if the Covid-19 infections continue to rise, said Health Minister Zahid Maleque today.

The Covid-19 infection rate was still high even though there were fewer tests conducted during the Eid holidays, said Dr Nazmul Islam, spokesperson of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), at a virtual briefing today.

COVID-19 vaccine inequity will have a lasting and profound impact on socio-economic recovery in low- and lower-middle income countries without urgent

Some patients with past SARS-CoV-2 infections think they have been “naturally immunised” and would not benefit from COVID-19 vaccination. Two new

The authorities have been struggling with the Delta variant of Covid-19 sweeping across the country and the DGHS has been coming up with grim data every day. But yesterday Bangladesh finally got some good news.