Five lakh doses of China's Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine have been handed over to Bangladesh today.

The World Health Organization said on Tuesday it was reviewing coronavirus data from Seychelles after the health ministry said more than a third of people who tested positive for Covid-19 in the past week had been fully vaccinated.

Bangladesh wants four to five crore doses of Covid-19 vaccine from China, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said today.

Battered by a severe second Covid-19 wave, India today said an early trend of fall in daily new Covid-19 cases and related fatalities has been noted across several parts of the country.

Thirty-three people have died from Covid-19 during 24 hours (till 8am today), according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

An aircraft of Bangladesh Air Force went to China this morning to bring five lakh doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine.

A 23-year-old Italian woman was under observation in a hospital in Tuscany after receiving six doses of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine in error, news agency AGI reported on Monday (May 10).

Doctors in India are warning against the practice of using cow dung in the belief it will ward off Covid-19, saying there is no scientific evidence for its effectiveness and that it risks spreading other diseases.

US regulators on Monday expanded the use of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine to children as young as 12, offering a way to protect the nation’s adolescents before they head back to school in the fall and paving the way for them to return to more normal activities.

Deaths from Covid-19 in Cox’s Bazar today reached 100 and 11 among them are Rohingyas, according to the district Civil Surgeon’s office.

Thirty-eight people have died from Covid-19 during 24 hours (till 8am today), according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday that if wealthy nations hogged COVID-19 shots while millions in poor countries died waiting for them it would amount to "vaccine apartheid".

Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming today officially announced the arrival of 5 lakh doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine on May 12.

Emirates airline said on Sunday it will fly medical supplies from Dubai to nine cities in India free of charge from this week to help battle a devastating upsurge in the coronavirus.

Fifty-six 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 European Union is sceptical about the usefulness of waiving patent rights to COVID-19 vaccines as a way to fight the pandemic, but is ready to discuss a concrete proposal, the chairman of EU leaders Charles Michel said on Saturday.

The Indian variant of Covid-19 was found in samples taken from two Bangladeshis, who returned from India and are now in institutional quarantine in Jashore.

Forty-five 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 highly contagious Indian variant of Covid-19 has been found in Bangladesh.

Around 89 percent of people who tested positive for Covid-19 in RT-PCR, and 26 percent who tested negative, developed antibodies against the virus, according to a study conducted by researchers in Bangladesh’s Chattogram and USA.