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

Ten lakh doses of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine arrived at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka at 5:30pm today.

The World Health Organization has said it is monitoring a new coronavirus variant known as "Mu", which was first identified in Colombia in January.

The country recorded 86 deaths from Covid-19 in 24 hours preceding 8:00am yesterday, said a press release of the Directorate General of Health Services.

India has rushed a consignment of medical oxygen and medical oxygen plants to Bangladesh to help the country in its fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, Indian officials said today.

Two crore people of the country will be vaccinated against Covid-19 in the next month, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said today.  

A new coronavirus variant that was first detected in South Africa in May does not appear to be spreading, the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday, adding it was monitoring the variant as the virus evolves.

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

Another consignment of over 55 lakh doses of Sinopharm vaccine arrived in Dhaka from China early today.

Japan's health minister said on Tuesday it was highly likely that foreign matter found in Moderna Inc COVID-19 vaccines in the southern prefecture of Okinawa were caused when needles were stuck into the vials.

A third-dose booster shot of the Covid-19 vaccination is a way to keep the most vulnerable safe and “not a luxury”, the World Health Organization said yesterday.

The country logged 94 deaths from Covid-19 in 24 hours preceding 8:00am yesterday. The daily positivity rate was 12.07 percent.

A new variant of Covid-19 virus has been detected in South Africa and many other countries, which could be more infectious and evade protection provided by vaccines, according to a joint study by scientists of India and South Africa.

Ninety-four people have died from Covid-19 in 24 hours (till 8 am today). The daily positivity rate during this period stood at 12.07 percent, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

India's rising output of Covid-19 vaccines and the inoculation of more than half its adult population with at least one dose are raising hopes the country will return as an exporter within months, ramping up from early next year.

New Zealand on Monday reported what authorities said was the country's first recorded death linked to the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine.

A study has revealed that costly antibiotics are being prescribed injudiciously for treating Covid patients at hospitals, which could lessen effectiveness of the lifesaving drugs in killing bacteria.

Eighty-nine more people died from Covid-19 in 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday, said a press release of the Directorate General of Health Services.

Health Minister Zahid Maleque today said that a new agreement of receiving 10.5 crore Covid-19 vaccine doses has been signed with the World Health Organization (WHO).

The rate of decreasing Covid-19 infections and deaths is not yet a matter of relief and efforts must be made to bring the transmission rate down, Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) spokesperson Professor Robed Amin said in a virtual health bulletin today.