Ghana has become the first country to receive coronavirus vaccines through the Covax vaccine-sharing initiative. The World Health Organization (WHO) programme aims to ensure that vaccines are shared fairly among all nations. Covax is aiming to deliver about two billion doses of

Bangladesh today confirmed 5 deaths from coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours, raising the death toll to 8,379. According to the Health authorities, 428 people have tested positive for coronavirus in the last 24 hours raising the total number of coronavirus cases in the country

Health Minister Zahid Maleque on Tuesday said that the second dose of Covid-19 vaccination will be administered from April 7. He said to reporters after a meeting at the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Affairs. The health minister said as many as 23.80 lakh people have been

Bangladesh today confirmed 18 deaths from coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours, raising the death toll to 8,374. According to the Health authorities, 399 people have tested positive for coronavirus in the last 24 hours raising the total number of coronavirus cases in the country

President Joe Biden has addressed the nation as the US marks 500,000 deaths from Covid-19, the highest toll of any country in the world. "As a nation, we can't accept such a cruel fate. We have to resist becoming numb to the sorrow," he said. The president and

Bangladesh today confirmed 7 deaths from coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours, raising the death toll to 8,356. According to the Health authorities, 366 people have tested positive for coronavirus in the last 24 hours raising the total number of coronavirus cases in the country

The United States on Monday surpassed the grim milestone of 5,00,000 Covid-related deaths since the start of the pandemic, as the nation's top virus expert warned a semblance of normalcy may not return until the end of the year. According to worldometers.info website, US recorded

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi suggested a special visa scheme for doctors, nurses for quick travel during health emergencies at the Covid workshop with 10 countries. He asked the leaders of neighbouring countries to maintain a cooperative and collaborative spirit in the

Malaysia moved up its COVID-19 inoculation drive by two days as the first batch of vaccines arrived in the Southeast Asian nation on Sunday. Malaysia aims to vaccinate at least 80% of its 32 million people within a year as it pushes to revive an economy that, slammed by

Bangladesh today confirmed 7 deaths from coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours, raising the death toll to 8,349. According to the Health authorities, 327 people have tested positive for coronavirus in the last 24 hours raising the total number of coronavirus cases in the country

A 3-month interval between doses of the AstraZeneca/Oxford Covid-19 vaccine results in a higher vaccine efficacy than a 6-week interval, a post-hoc exploratory analysis from a phase 3 randomised controlled trial has suggested. The study, published in The Lancet, has found that the

Bangladesh today confirmed five deaths from coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours, raising the death toll to 8,342. According to the Health authorities, 350 people have tested positive for coronavirus in the last 24 hours raising the total number of coronavirus cases in the

India reported on Friday its biggest jump in new coronavirus infections in three weeks, with 13,193 cases, while thousands of marshals fanned out to enforce mask wearing across the financial capital of Mumbai, which is battling a recent spurt. The tally of confirmed infections is 10.96

Bangladesh today confirmed 8 deaths from coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours, raising the death toll to 8,337. According to the Health authorities, 406 people have tested positive for coronavirus in the last 24 hours raising the total number of coronavirus cases in the country

The United Nations chief has sharply criticised the “wildly uneven and unfair” distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, pointing out that just 10 countries have administered 75 percent of all vaccinations. Addressing a high-level meeting of the UN Security Council on Wednesday,

Bangladesh today confirmed 15 deaths from coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours, raising the death toll to 8,329. According to the Health authorities, 391 people have tested positive for coronavirus in the last 24 hours raising the total number of coronavirus cases in the country

Bangladesh today confirmed 16 deaths from coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours, raising the death toll to 8,314. According to the Health authorities, 443 people have tested positive for coronavirus in the last 24 hours raising the total number of coronavirus cases in the country

The World Health Organization has granted an emergency authorization to AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine, a move that should allow the UN agency’s partners to ship millions of doses to countries as part of a UN-backed program to tame the pandemic. In a statement Monday,

Bangladesh today confirmed 13 deaths from coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours, raising the death toll to 8,298. According to the Health authorities, 396 people have tested positive for coronavirus in the last 24 hours raising the total number of coronavirus cases in the country

India's tally of Covid-19 cases rose to 1,09,16,589 with 11,649 new infections, while fresh fatalities were recorded below 100 for the ninth time this month, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Monday. The death toll increased to 1,55,732 with 90 daily new