February 26, 2021

Ivory Coast becomes second country to receive COVAX vaccines

Published in: The Business Standard Date: 26 February, 2021   By the end of this year, COVAX plans to deliver nearly 2 billion doses to over […]
February 23, 2021

Pfizer, AstraZeneca vaccines highly effective after first dose: study

Published in: The Daily Star Date: 23 February, 2021 Reuters, London Scotland’s vaccination drive appears to be markedly reducing the risk of hospitalisation for Covid-19, suggesting […]
February 22, 2021

US coronavirus death toll approaches milestone of 500,000

Published in: The Daily Star Date: 22 February, 2021 AP The US stood Sunday at the brink of a once-unthinkable tally: 500,000 people lost to the coronavirus. […]
February 20, 2021

World Bank may approve $1.6bn Covid-19 vaccine funding for Bangladesh, 11 others

Published in: The Daily Star Date: 20 February, 2021 Reuters, Washington World Bank is expected to approve $1.6 billion in Covid-19 vaccine funding for Bangladesh and […]
February 20, 2021

Over 200 million vaccine doses administered globally

Published in: The Daily Star Date: 20 February, 2021 AFP More than 200 million coronavirus vaccine doses have been administered in at least 107 countries and […]
February 18, 2021

10 countries have 75% of existing Covid-19 vaccines, 130 have none: UN chief

Published in: The Daily Star Date: 18 February, 2021 AP, UN UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres sharply criticized the “wildly uneven and unfair” distribution of Covid-19 vaccines […]
February 18, 2021

One-third of US military refusing Covid vaccine: Pentagon

Published in: The Business Standard Date: 18 February, 2021   The high refusal rate was revealed in Congressional hearing, as the US Defense Department continues to […]
February 18, 2021

India to gift 2,00,000 doses of coronavirus vaccine to UN peacekeepers

Published in: The Business Standard Date: 18 February, 2021     Twenty-five nations across the world have already received Made in India vaccines and Forty-nine more […]
February 18, 2021

Pfizer says South African variant could significantly reduce vaccine protection

Published in: The Daily Star Date: 18 February, 2021 Reuters A laboratory study suggests that the South African variant of the coronavirus may reduce antibody protection […]