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 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 […]
June 15, 2021

Single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine gets emergency use authorization in Bangladesh

Published in The Daily Star Date: 15 June 2021 The Directorate General of Drug Administration (DGDA) has issued emergency use authorisation (EUA) to Johnson & Johnson’s […]
June 15, 2021

Covid-19 on the rise again: 50 deaths, 3,319 new cases reported in 24 hours

Published in The Daily Star Date: 15 June 2021 Fifty people have died from Covid-19 in 24 hours (till 8am today), according to a press release […]
June 14, 2021

A sharp rise: 54 Covid-19 deaths, 3,050 new cases reported in 24 hours

Published in The Daily Star Date: 14 June 2021 Fifty-four people have died from Covid-19 in 24 hours (till 8am today), according to a press release […]
April 24, 2021

Gov’t reduces compulsory quarantine period to 5 days for expats

Published in: The Business Standard Date: 24 Apr 2021 The government has decided to enforce five-day quarantine instead of the 14-day mandatory quarantine for inbound expatriates […]