Israel’s prime minister on Thursday announced that the country would offer a coronavirus booster to people over 60 who have already been vaccinated.

Bangladesh will need an estimated $3.7 billion to inoculate 80 percent of the population against Covid in one and a half to two years and achieve herd immunity.

Dengue infections keep rising as 194 more people with dengue fever were hospitalised in the country in 24 hours ending at 8:00am yesterday, the highest in a single day this year.   

The government yesterday lowered the age limit from 30 to 25 years for Covid-19 vaccination.

As the pandemic raged on for the last year and a half, the inventor’s wheels also kept turning.

China yesterday reported small coronavirus outbreaks driven by the Delta variant in three provinces as Olympics host Japan

A doctor from Bogura died with Covid-19 while undergoing treatment at Sheikh Mujib Medical University in the capital on Wednesday noon.

Two sitting judges and eight staff members of lower courts died from Covid-19, since the pandemic hit the country in March last year.

A rights organisation served a legal notice on the government yesterday, requesting it to take necessary steps in 24 hours to provide Covid-19 vaccine to expecting mothers on priority basis. 

Amid the rising number of Covid-19 infections and deaths, the nationwide “strict lockdown” seems to be loosening up as public and vehicular movement on the streets of Dhaka and elsewhere continues to increase with each passing day.

Ten lakh doses of Sinopharm’s Covid-19 vaccine arrived at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 10:20am tonight.

Thirty lakh doses of Sinopharm vaccine from China will reach Bangladesh tonight, said health ministry officials.

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

AstraZeneca is exploring options for the future of its COVID-19 vaccine and expects greater clarity on the matter by the end of 2021, a senior executive told Reuters on Thursday.

Second-quarter sales of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine more than tripled to $894 million from the previous three months, but the drugmaker once again delayed its US application for approval.

The second shipment of medical equipment to fight Covid-19, donated by US-Bangladesh Business Council in partnership with American NGO Project CURE, reached Dhaka airport this afternoon.

A total of 1,019 new Covid-19 cases and 41 deaths were recorded in the Khulna division in 24 hours (till 8 am today).

Government has lowered the age bar, from 30 to 25 years, for taking the Covid-19 jab.

The Directorate General of Drug Administration (DGDA) has approved the production and use of the locally developed cost-effective portable ventilator, named OxyJet CPAP, on limited scale.

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