June 21, 2021

India vaccinates record 75 lakh people on day 1 of new vaccination programme

Published in: The Business Standard Date: 21 June, 2021   The Indian governemnt started providing vaccines free of charge to all above 18 from today and […]
June 21, 2021

Gilead’s remdesivir reduces Covid-19 mortality risk

Published in: The Business Standard Date: 21 June, 2021   The drugmaker said on Monday it analyzed data from 98,654 patients from three retrospective studies of […]
June 21, 2021

Study confirms GSK-Vir antibody drug reduces hospitalisation, death in Covid-19 patients

Published in: The Business Standard Date: 21 June, 2021   The drugmakers also said on Monday the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has recommended sotrovimab […]
June 20, 2021

India’s daily Covid-19 cases drop below 60,000 for the first time in 81 days

Published in: The Daily Star Date: 20 June, 2021 Star Digital Report Maintaining a continued improvement in the situation, India reported less than 60,000 daily Covid-19 […]
June 20, 2021

Brazil set to pass half a million Covid-19 deaths

REUTERS, SAO PAULO Brazil’s death toll from COVID-19 is expected to pass 500,000 on Saturday as experts warn that the world’s second-deadliest outbreak may worsen due to delayed […]
June 19, 2021

Govts of South Asian countries fail to devise Covid-19 recovery solutions: experts

Published in: The Daily Star Date: 19 June, 2021 Star Business Report The governments of South Asian countries, including Bangladesh, have failed to play their roles […]
June 19, 2021

Vaccination with Sinopharm starts in 67 centres across the country

Published in: The Daily Star Date: 19 June, 2021   In Dhaka city, the vaccine campaign started from 8am in four centres including Dhaka Medical College […]
June 18, 2021

Covid-19: Positivity rate jumps up by 3% in 24 hours, 54 deaths recorded

Published in: The Daily Star Date: 18 June, 2021 Star Digital Report 3,883 new infections Fifty-four people have died from Covid-19 in 24 hours till 8am […]
June 18, 2021

Delta Covid variant becoming globally dominant, WHO official says

Published in: The Daily Star Date: 18 June, 2021   REUTERS, GENEVA The Delta variant of COVID-19, first identified in India, is becoming the globally dominant variant of the disease, the World […]