Britain on Friday approved the use of the single shot Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) announced Friday.

India reported on Friday 186,364 new coronavirus infections during the previous 24 hours, for its lowest daily rise since April 14, while deaths rose by 3,660.

The global Covid-19 death toll has now topped 3.5 million, as the pandemic continues to devastate countries across the world.

Local authorities are going to launch an RT PCR laboratory in Chapainawabganj tomorrow, in the wake of increasing detection rate of coronavirus infection in the frontier district.

The current state of global vaccine distribution is “unacceptable” and “horrifying”, the UN General Assembly president said today, pointing at the nationalistic attitude of developed countries and vaccine manufacturing nations.

Moderna Inc (MRNA.O) and Novavax Inc (NVAX.O) entered into a deal with the South Korean government to manufacture their COVID-19 vaccines, as the country has been under pressure to secure more and faster deliveries of US-made vaccines.

China has said it will continue to support Bangladesh's fight against Covid-19 and is willing to facilitate the discussion on cooperation over vaccines between Chinese and Bangladeshi companies.

Thirty-eight people have died from Covid-19 during 24 hours (till 8:00am today), according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

India's information technology (IT) ministry has written to all social media companies asking them to take down any content that refers to an "Indian variant" of the coronavirus, according to a letter issued on Friday which was seen by Reuters.

China has announced that it will send six lakh Covid-19 vaccine doses to Bangladesh as a gift, having earlier sent five lakh doses of its Sinopharm vaccine in the first batch.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's kidneys and heart have been affected by the post-Covid complications, the party’s Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said today.

Official death tolls from the COVID-19 pandemic are likely to be a "significant undercount", the World Health Organization said on Friday, estimating that the true figure of direct and indirect deaths could be two to three times higher.

India today declared “Black Fungus” (Mucormycosis), a complication commonly associated with Covid-19, as an epidemic.

Taxi drivers are starved for customers, weddings are suddenly canceled, schools are closed, and restaurant service is restricted across much of Asia as the coronavirus makes a resurgence in countries where it had seemed to be well under control.

India's Biological E. will produce the Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) COVID-19 vaccine alongside its own candidate, its managing director told Reuters on Tuesday, which could boost the country's overall supplies amid a shortage.

The global death toll from Covid-19 is approaching 3.4 million, as the race for mass inoculations continues.

The highly contagious Indian variant of Covid-19 has been detected in samples of three more Bangladeshis, who returned from India, as per the Genome Center of Jashore University of Science and Technology.

Bangladesh today sent medicine, injections and other medical supplies worth Tk 20 crore to India through Benapole land port this afternoon as support during the neighbouring country's devastating Covid-19 situation.

Thirty people have died from Covid-19 during 24 hours (till 8:00am today), according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Three students who returned from India tested positive for Covid-19 while they were in quarantine at a residential hotel in Burimari Land Port of Patgram upazila in Lalmonirhat.