Several Indian states have run out of Covid-19 vaccines a day before a planned widening of a nationwide inoculation drive, authorities said on Friday, as new infections in the crisis-hit country surged to another daily record.

Leader of the Opposition in parliament Raushan Ershad was admitted to Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka last night.

Pfizer Inc's shipment of Covid-19 vaccine to Mexico this week includes doses made in its US plant, the first of what are expected to be ongoing exports of its shots from the United States, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday.

The Russian developer of the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine said on Thursday it would sue the Brazilian health regulator Anvisa for defamation, prompting a stern rebuttal from the agency.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today stressed the importance of five actions to fight against antimicrobial resistance (AMR) as it is crucial for preventing future pandemics.

In total, 510 Bangladeshis, including three who are Covid-19 positive, have returned home from India over three days till today.

88 deaths, 2,341 infected in 24 hours.

Total global spending on COVID-19 vaccines is projected to reach $157 billion by 2025, driven by mass vaccination programs underway and “booster shots” expected every two years, according to a report by US health data company IQVIA Holdings Inc released on Thursday.

The government has issued emergency use approval for China’s Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine.

The People’s Vaccine Alliance (PVA) in Asia will call on Japan, Singapore and South Korea to support the ‘temporary TRIPS Waiver’ proposal at the World Trade Organization’s general council meeting tomorrow.

The National Technical Advisory Committee on Covid-19 has alerted the government regarding artificial oxygen crisis in the country.

Europe could reach herd immunity "in July, latest by August," the head of German pharmaceutical company BioNTech, which developed the first widely approved Covid-19 vaccine with US partner Pfizer, said yesterday (Wednesday).

The United States is sending supplies worth more than $100 million to India to help it fight a surge of Covid-19 cases, the White House said in a statement on Wednesday.

China, and five South Asian countries, have opposed the idea of "vaccine nationalism" and politicising the issue of Covid-19 origin while calling for the distribution of vaccines under the principle of equity and justice.

A sore arm is the most common side effect of the Covid-19 vaccines and roughly one in four (25%) people had wider effects like fever, headache, nausea and fatigue and lasted for a day on average while two-thirds (66%) had a local reaction according to a UK study.

Seventy-seven 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).

The government has taken the initiative to produce Chinese and Russian Covid-19 vaccines through local companies in Bangladesh.

A single dose of Covid-19 vaccine can slash transmission of the virus by up to half, BBC reports quoting a Public Health England (PHE) study.

India’s toll from the coronavirus surged past 200,000 on Wednesday, the country’s deadliest day yet, as shortages of oxygen, medical supplies and hospital staff compounded a record number of new infections.

The World Health Organisation said on Tuesday that a variant of COVID-19 feared to be contributing to a surge in coronavirus cases in India has been found in over a dozen countries.