US President Joe Biden on Friday said social media platforms like Facebook "are killing people" for allowing misinformation about coronavirus vaccines to be posted on its platform, as the administration continued criticizing the company.

Eleven patients died while undergoing treatment at the Covid units of two Khulna hospitals in 24 hours till 8am today.

The doses for Bangladesh will arrive on Monday, a White House official said.

The Delta variant of Covid-19 is now the dominant strain worldwide, accompanied by a surge of deaths around the United States almost entirely among unvaccinated people, US officials said Friday.

Even amid the pandemic, Dhaka residents thronged shopping centres and markets yesterday for Eid shopping.

With the number of Covid-19 patients increasing every day, M Abdur Rahim Medical College and Hospital in Dinajpur is overflowing. As of yesterday, around 200 people occupied the hospital’s 130-bed Covid unit.

Does the Bangladesh government have a comprehensive plan to combat Covid-19 by now? Not really.

At least seven people tested positive for coronavirus every minute in the last 16 days as the health directorate recorded 1,70,664 new cases during this period.

Largely ignoring the health safety rules, people in their thousands left the capital for their village homes yesterday to celebrate the Eid-ul-Azha with their loved ones.

Twenty lakh doses of China’s Sinopharm vaccine for Covid-19 will arrive in Dhaka tonight.

Global infections soared to half a million daily, largely driven by the virulent Delta strain as the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that “more dangerous” variants of Covid-19 could tear across the world.

An additional superin-tendent of police, who was infected with Covid-19, died at the capital’s Central Police Hospital early yesterday.

Professor Emeritus Dr Abdul Matin of Dhaka University died from Covid-19 yesterday.

With at least 63 people with dengue fever being admitted to hospitals in the country during 24 hours till 8am yesterday, the number of dengue cases has passed the 1,000 mark this year.

England's coronavirus crisis could return again surprisingly quickly and the country is not yet out of the woods, the British government's chief medical adviser said, as infections surged ahead of the lifting of legal restrictions.

The number of people being diagnosed with dengue fever across the country this year crossed the 1,000 mark with at least 63 more being admitted to hospitals in the 24 hours till 8:00am today.  

Bangladesh will receive 20 lakh doses of Sinopharm vaccine from China tomorrow.

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

The Indian government has ordered 660 million vaccine doses for August-December, its largest procurement, local news reports said on Friday, as state authorities and health experts warned that shortages could leave millions vulnerable if coronavirus infections surge again.

The leaders of a Chilean late-stage human trial of the CoronaVac COVID-19 vaccine developed by China's Sinovac (SVA.O) on Thursday recommended a third dose of the jab to protect against the more contagious Delta variant.