Foreign ministers of China, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Afghanistan, and Pakistan hold meeting.

During a phone call with US President Joe Biden, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday reiterated New Delhi’s commitment to containing the Covid-19 pandemic globally through vaccine friendship.

India’s government has decided to leave the import of Covid-19 vaccines to state authorities and companies, two government officials told Reuters, a decision that may slow acquisitions of shots as a second wave of the pandemic rips through the country.

Seeing her Covid-19 positive husband gasping for breath, Renu Singhal tried to resuscitate him but couldn't save his life in India’s Agra.

The ten Covid-19 patients, who fled Jashore General Hospital on Friday and Saturday, are being brought back by law enforcers and officials from the local administration.

The United States will immediately provide raw materials for Covid-19 vaccines, medical equipment and protective gear to help India respond to a massive surge in Covid-19 infections, a White House spokeswoman said on Sunday.

The European Union and Germany today promised assistance to India to help fight the second wave of Covid-19 that threatens to overwhelm the country’s healthcare infrastructure.

The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has extended opening hours for markets, shops and shopping malls in the capital till 9:00pm.

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.

An intensive care unit (ICU) was installed at Bagerhat Sadar Hospital with three ICU beds yesterday for treating critically ill Covid-19 patients.

The restrictions on movement are likely to be relaxed to some extent from April 28, two weeks before Eid-ul-Fitr, the biggest religious festival of Muslims.

The Serum Institute of India will be able to raise its monthly output of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to 100 million doses by July from 60-70 million now, later than a previous timeline of end-May, its chief executive Adar Poonawalla told CNBC-TV18.

Attorney General AM Amin Uddin today told the High Court that he does not know whether there is any oxygen crisis in the hospitals of the country.

A total of 507 Rohingya refugees were infected with Covid-19 in the camps of Cox's Bazar since the coronavirus outbreak started March last year.

Eighteen Bangladeshi nationals out of 1500, who returned from India through Benapole border in Jashore in the last six days amid the “strict lockdown” have tested positive for coronavirus.

Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) declared eight areas under three police stations in the port city as “highly infected” areas for Covid-19 today.

Faced with shortage of oxygen supply to treat an unprecedented rise in critical Covid patients across the country, India tonight decided to ban the supply of oxygen for industrial purposes from April 22 till further order.

A man in Barishal yesterday had to carry his Covid-19 infected mother on his motorbike with an oxygen cylinder tied to his back.

The government is considering extending the ongoing “countrywide lockdown" for another week as Covid-19 infection is still on the rise.

A total of 208 people have been fined by mobile courts in Khulna for defying the government-imposed restrictions since the seven-day "strict lockdown" began across the country on Wednesday.