The World Health Organization's pandemic programme plans to ship 100 million doses of the Sinovac (SVA.O) and Sinopharm COVID-19 shots by the end of next month, mostly to Africa and Asia, in its first delivery of Chinese vaccines, a WHO document shows.

Myanmar will vaccinate minority Muslim Rohingya people against the coronavirus, a spokesman for its ruling military said on Friday, adding that no one will be left behind in its inoculation campaign.

Researchers at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) have created a facemask using silver and copper nanolayers that neutralizes SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, the university's official gazette said on Thursday.

Fatigue and shortness of breath still afflict many patients a year after their hospitalisation for Covid-19, according to a new Chinese study calling for a better understanding of the pandemic's long-term health effects.

A parliamentary body yesterday strongly recommended that Essential Drugs, a government-owned company, take immediate measures to produce Covid-19 vaccines within six to nine months so that all citizens can be brought under vaccination as soon as possible.

Bangladesh, currently seeing a downtrend in Covid-19 cases, detected 4,698 fresh cases in 34,111 samples in the last 24 hours till yesterday morning.

The search for the origins of the Covid pandemic that has killed millions and crippled economies is at a standstill even as time is running out, scientists charged with the task by the UN warned.

At least 267 more dengue patients were hospitalised in the last 24 hours till 8am yesterday. According to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), 50 of these cases are from outside Dhaka.

The parliamentary body on health ministry today strongly recommended Essential Drugs, a government owned company, to take immediate measures to produce Covid-19 vaccine within six to nine months in order to bring all citizens of the country under vaccination as soon as possible.

At least 267 more dengue patients were hospitalised in the last 24 hours till 8:00am today, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS)

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

Japan will halt the use of 1.63 million doses of Moderna's Covid vaccine after reports of contamination in several vials, drugmaker Takeda and the health ministry said Thursday.

The government will replicate the first special mass vaccination drive all over the country to administering the second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine from September 7, said Prof Abul Bashar Mohammad Khurshid Alam, director general of the health directorate, yesterday.

Protection against Covid-19 offered by two doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech and the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccines begins to fade within six months, underscoring the need for booster shots, according to researchers in Britain.

Two more dengue patients died while at least 278 more were hospitalised in the last 24 hours till 8am yesterday which points to the fast-rising trend of the disease, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

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

Two more died while at least 278 more dengue patients were hospitalized in the last 24 hours till 8:00 am today, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Covid-19 mass vaccination drive for the second dose will begin on September 7, Prof Dr Abul Bashar Mohammad Khurshid Alam, director general (Health) of DGHS, announced today.

A death row convict in a murder case died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital early today.

The number of people living with high blood pressure more than doubled since 1990, according to a major study published on Wednesday that found half of all sufferers -- about 720 million people -- went untreated in 2019.