At least 27 people were killed and 46 injured in a fire on Saturday at a hospital in south-east Baghdad that had been equipped to house Covid-19 patients, medical sources at three nearby hospitals said.

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Overwhelmed hospitals in India begged for oxygen supplies on Saturday as the country's coronavirus infections soared again overnight in a "tsunami" of disease, setting a new world record for cases for the third consecutive day.

Eighty-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).

Seram Institute of India (SII) has no right to halt vaccine supply after receiving payment in advance, Nazmul Hasan Papon, managing director of Beximco Pharmaceuticals, said today.

The government of the eastern Indian state of Odisha has sealed its land border with adjacent West Bengal where the reported presence of a triple mutant variant of Covid-19 has caused concerns.

The United States can immediately resume use of Johnson & Johnson's Covid-19 vaccine, top health regulators said on Friday, ending a 10-day pause to investigate its link to extremely rare but potentially deadly blood clots.

The US and a handful of other big countries have blocked negotiations at the World Trade Organization involving a proposal spearheaded by India and South Africa that would temporarily waive the intellectual property rights of pharmaceutical companies to allow developing countries to produce vaccines.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that he was looking at what he could do to help India, where the coronavirus pandemic is entering a deadly new phase with which its health services are struggling to cope.

The health condition of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has further improved as she no longer has coronavirus symptoms, said her physicians.

Eighty-eight 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).

Bangladesh, in principle, has agreed to a Chinese proposal to set up an "Emergency Covid-19 Vaccine Storage Facility" to ensure quick supply of vaccines among the South Asian countries during emergency.

Ninety-eight 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).

India will try its best to supply Covid-19 vaccines to Bangladesh, Indian High Commissioner Vikram Doraiswami said today.

US drugmaker Pfizer on Wednesday (April 21) confirmed that suspect doses of its coronavirus vaccine that were seized in Mexico and Poland were indeed fake, with doses going for as much as US$1,000 (S$1,328) a shot, according to US media.

India reported the world's highest single-day spike in coronavirus cases with 3,14,835 infections and 2,104 fatalities in the last 24 hours, according to figures released by Indian Health Ministry this morning.