With the number of Covid-19 patients increasing every day, M Abdur Rahim Medical College and Hospital in Dinajpur is overflowing. As of yesterday, around 200 people occupied the hospital’s 130-bed Covid unit.

Does the Bangladesh government have a comprehensive plan to combat Covid-19 by now? Not really.

At least seven people tested positive for coronavirus every minute in the last 16 days as the health directorate recorded 1,70,664 new cases during this period.

Largely ignoring the health safety rules, people in their thousands left the capital for their village homes yesterday to celebrate the Eid-ul-Azha with their loved ones.

Twenty lakh doses of China’s Sinopharm vaccine for Covid-19 will arrive in Dhaka tonight.

Global infections soared to half a million daily, largely driven by the virulent Delta strain as the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that “more dangerous” variants of Covid-19 could tear across the world.

England's coronavirus crisis could return again surprisingly quickly and the country is not yet out of the woods, the British government's chief medical adviser said, as infections surged ahead of the lifting of legal restrictions.

The number of people being diagnosed with dengue fever across the country this year crossed the 1,000 mark with at least 63 more being admitted to hospitals in the 24 hours till 8:00am today.  

Bangladesh will receive 20 lakh doses of Sinopharm vaccine from China tomorrow.

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

The Indian government has ordered 660 million vaccine doses for August-December, its largest procurement, local news reports said on Friday, as state authorities and health experts warned that shortages could leave millions vulnerable if coronavirus infections surge again.

The leaders of a Chilean late-stage human trial of the CoronaVac COVID-19 vaccine developed by China's Sinovac (SVA.O) on Thursday recommended a third dose of the jab to protect against the more contagious Delta variant.

Thirteen patients died while undergoing treatment at Covid-19 units of four Khulna hospitals in 24 hours till 8am today.

The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) held a ceremony yesterday at the IVI Headquarters welcoming Bangladesh’s accession to the IVI.

An additional superintendent of police, who was infected with Covid-19, died at Central Police Hospital in Dhaka early today.

Dozens of patients were whisked off Tangail General Hospital by their panic-stricken relatives yesterday after a fire broke out at the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar gave no assurance about resuming vaccine supply to Bangladesh anytime soon at a meeting with his Bangladesh counterpart AK Abdul Momen in Uzbekistan yesterday.

Faced with limited resources in research against infectious diseases like Covid-19, Bangladesh has decided to join Seoul-based International Vaccine Institute to build the capacity to produce vaccines locally.

The health directorate reported the second highest daily deaths of 226 from Covid-19 yesterday, which was the first day of withdrawing the “strict lockdown” for a week.

Thousands of people left Dhaka yesterday on buses, trains and launches as the government relaxed the “strict lockdown” ahead of Eid-ul-Azha, which has raised fears of an increase in Covid-19 transmission.