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

People who went to their village homes before Eid suffered immensely on their return to Dhaka yesterday, the first day of the 14-day “strict lockdown” as no means of commuting, except rickshaws, were available.

Compared to the second week of July, the Covid-19 infection rate shot up in Dhaka and its three bordering districts last week.

Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus has reiterated the call for ensuring vaccine equality around the world.

India is working to resume the export of Covid vaccine jabs to Bangladesh as vaccine production in India is growing rapidly, said Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Vikram Kumar Doraiswami yesterday.

The government is planning to lower the age limit for Covid-19 vaccination to 18 years from 30, Prof ABM Khurshid Alam, the director general of the health directorate, said yesterday.

The government has instructed six public hospitals in the capital to add another 1,200 Covid-19 beds as the pandemic continues to surge, leaving healthcare facilities near capacity.

A total of 2.45 lakh AstraZeneca vaccines will be arriving in Bangladesh from Japan tomorrow.

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

Government is planning to lower the age limit from 30 to 18 years to be eligible for Covid-19 vaccine shot among mass people.

Passengers and all kinds of vehicles including motorcycles, private cars and microbuses have been crossing Paturia-Daulatdia ferry terminals since this morning in violation of the lockdown.

A longer gap between doses of Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine leads to higher overall antibody levels than a shorter gap, a British study found on Friday, but there is a sharp drop in antibody levels after the first dose.

Twelve more people have died of Covid-19 while three died of Covid-19 like symptoms in 24 hours till 8:00 am today.

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 restrictions announced by the government from tomorrow until August 5 will be “stricter than the one imposed last time”, State Minister for Public Administration Farhad Hossain said today.

The global Covid-19 caseload is inching closer to the 192-million mark, as the second wave of the pandemic continues to devastate countries across the world even with mass inoculations underway.

Fifteen people died of Covid-19 in Rangpur division in 24 hours (till 8am today).

China rejected on Thursday a World Health Organization (WHO) plan for a second phase of an investigation into the origin of the coronavirus, which includes the hypothesis it could have escaped from a Chinese laboratory, a top health official said.

Forty patients suffering from Covid-19 died in the districts of Khulna division in 24 hours till 8:00am today.

Indonesia has converted nearly its entire oxygen production to medical use just to meet the demand from COVID-19 patients struggling to breathe. Overflowing hospitals in Malaysia had to resort to treating patients on the floor. And in Myanmar’s largest city, graveyard workers have been laboring day and night to keep up with the grim demand for new cremations and burials.