Huge number of vehicles, except public transport, were seen on Dhaka streets today -- two days before the government-enforced lockdown ends.

Covid-19 vaccination campaign for Rohingyas in the refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar will begin tomorrow, reports our local correspondent quoting the district’s civil surgeon.

Abul Mansur Chowdhury, former chief assistant editor of The Daily Star died of Covid-19 early today at the age of 66.

Another black fungus (Mucormycosis) patient has been identified in Chattogram and is being treated at the Chattogram Medical College Hospital (CMCH) since August 6.

More than 30 Chinese officials have been fired or received other punishments over accusations they failed to respond properly to the latest surge of the coronavirus in the country.

Seventeen people died while being treated at the Covid unit of Mymensingh Medical College Hospital in 24 hours till 8am today.

The United States has announced an additional $11.4 million in urgent Covid-19 assistance for Bangladesh.

The government has politicised the mass vaccination programme by deceiving people, alleged BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday.

The third day of the latest phase of ongoing nationwide lockdown yesterday saw significant number of vehicles plying on the capital’s different streets.

The government has decided to lift most of the restrictions on people’s movement and public transport from Wednesday even as Covid-19 continues to exact a heavy toll on people’s lives with high death and infection rates.

Two hundred and forty-one people have died from Covid-19 in 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

The government achieved the target of administering 32 lakh Covid vaccine jabs in just two days though it had fixed a six-day timeline for the mass inoculation drive.

More and more dengue patients are requiring hospitalisation as the number of dengue cases continues to rise across the country.

The government has decided to inoculate pregnant women and nursing mothers against Covid-19.

The health directorate has decided to bring expecting and nursing mothers under Covid-19 vaccine coverage.

The continued spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has spawned a Greek alphabet of variants - a naming system used by the World Health Organization to track concerning new mutations of the virus that causes COVID-19. Some have equipped the virus with better ways of infecting humans or evading vaccine protection.

Two hundred and forty-one people have died from Covid-19 in 24 hours (till 8am today). The daily positivity rate during this period stood at 24.52 percent, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

The government has decided to allow all public transport to operate at full capacity across the country from August 11.

At least 224 people with dengue fever were admitted to hospitals in the country in 24 hours till 8 am today. Of them, only 13 are from outside Dhaka.

Fifteen people died of Covid-19 in Chattogram district in 24 hours till 8am today.