President Joe Biden will push world leaders on Wednesday to do more to curb the COVID-19 pandemic, and announce a US pledge to buy 500 million more vaccine doses to donate to other countries.

At least 229 dengue patients were hospitalised in 24 hours till 8:00 am today, of whom 53 are outside Dhaka.

Thirty-six people died from Covid-19 in the 24 hours preceding 8am today, said a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Grade 3 classes of a school in Gopalganj’s Kotalipara upazila have been suspended after a student tested positive for Covid-19.

Covid vaccine manufacturers are putting profit before lives, Amnesty International said on Wednesday, as it demanded two billion doses for poorer nations by the end of the year.

A total of 89 lakh doses of Covid-19 vaccine will be shipped to Bangladesh in the last three months of the year, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam said in a Facebook post early on Wednesday.

The Covid-19 positivity rate has gone down to 4.69 percent -- the lowest in the past six and half months.

People especially in remote areas are yet to be aware about Covid-19 vaccination, said speakers at a meeting in Khulna yesterday. Health department and CARE Bangladesh organised the programme at School Health Clinic Conference room.

Number of dengue cases in the country has crossed the 16,000-mark with at least 246 new patients hospitalised in 24 hours preceding 8:00am today, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

India today said its decision to resume export of surplus Covid-19 vaccines to neighbouring countries is conditional to availability of the jabs after meeting domestic requirements.

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

India will resume exports of surplus Covid-19 vaccines from next month, prioritising the global vaccine-sharing platform Covax and neighbouring countries first as supplies rise, the country’s health minister said yesterday.

A group of UAE-based expatriates, who got stranded at home amid the pandemic, yesterday gathered at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport’s multi-storey car park to demand speedy installation of RT-PCR labs there.

Twenty-six Covid-19 patients died in the 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday -- the lowest single-day death in nearly four months.

When the Covid-19 pandemic began, some cultural activists could not bear the thought of staying back home as everyone else suffered.

At least 275 patients were hospitalised in the last 24 hours till 8am yesterday. Of them, 64 are from outside Dhaka.

COVID-19 has now killed about as many Americans as the 1918-19 Spanish flu pandemic did — approximately 675,000. And like the worldwide scourge of a century ago, the coronavirus may never entirely disappear from our midst.

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

India will resume surplus Covid-19 vaccine exports next month under the “Vaccine Maitri” programme, said Indian Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya while addressing the media in New Delhi.

At least 275 patients were hospitalised in the 24 hours preceding 8:00am today and of them only 64 are from outside Dhaka, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).