Garment workers in Gazipur will be vaccinated from today (Sunday), without registration, said Dr Khairuzzaman, civil surgeon of Gazipur.

The United States will send 3 million doses of the Moderna vaccine to Bangladesh tomorrow, taking its total supplies to 5.6 million doses.

The lack of sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 variants is imperilling the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic, argues Dana Crawford of Case Western Reserve University in a new Viewpoint published recently in the journal PLOS Genetics.

The World Health Organization said on Friday that the second stage of an investigation into the origins of Covid-19 should include further studies in China and lab audits. 

On Thursday night, there were 54 patients admitted to the Covid-19 unit of a privately-owned Sylhet Community Based Hospital in the city.

Sumon Hossen was buried at his native village in Jhenaidah on Friday. He was 22 years old. With his death, the hopes and dreams of his parents, which revolved around their son, were also shattered.

Traffic moving at a snail’s pace, shoppers huddling together, and masks being ignored in general, with the coronavirus wreaking havoc across the country, one might be perplexed to know that this is the current scenario on the roads of Dhaka.

The fatalities and new cases of Covid-19 have both shot up this week, coincidentally, with the lifting of lockdown on July 15 despite health experts’ best advice.

The government’s condition of maintaining health guidelines for allowing cattle markets ahead of Eid-ul-Azha seems to have fallen on deaf ears.

A Bangladesh Biman flight left the Beijing International Airport for Dhaka today with 10 lakh doses of Covid-19 vaccines bought from the Chinese state-owned enterprise Sinopharm.

Sumon Hossen, a student of Dhaka University, died of Covid-19 in his village home in Jhenaidah yesterday. He was a student of the Anthropology Department of Dhaka University.

British health minister Sajid Javid on Saturday said he had tested positive for Covid-19, but added that his symptoms were mild and he was thankful to have had had two doses of vaccine against the disease.

Oxygen crisis at the privately-owned Sylhet Community Based Hospital led to the death of a Covid-19 patient early Friday.

France will allow international travelers who have had AstraZeneca’s Indian-manufactured vaccine into the country starting Sunday.

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

Amid a rise in the number of dengue patients, Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) reported 81 more new cases across the country in 24 hours until this morning.

Sixteen patients died at the Covid unit of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital till 8 this morning.

Four people died of Covid-19 and rest with Covid-like symptoms in Barishal division in 24 hours till this morning.

US President Joe Biden on Friday said social media platforms like Facebook "are killing people" for allowing misinformation about coronavirus vaccines to be posted on its platform, as the administration continued criticizing the company.

Eleven patients died while undergoing treatment at the Covid units of two Khulna hospitals in 24 hours till 8am today.