June 26, 2021

Booster may be needed for J&J shot as Delta variant spreads, some experts already taking them

Published in: The Daily Star Date: 26 June, 2021 Reuters Infectious disease experts are weighing the need for booster shots of the Pfizer/BioNTech, or Moderna mRNA-based […]
June 25, 2021

Nearly all COVID deaths in US are now among unvaccinated

Published in: The Daily Star Date: 25 June, 2021 AP Nearly all COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. now are in people who weren’t vaccinated, a staggering […]
June 25, 2021

British man tests positive for Covid-19 for 10 straight months

Published in: The Daily Star Date: 25 June, 2021 AFP A 72-year-old British man tested positive for coronavirus for 10 months in what is thought to […]
June 25, 2021

Study shows first Covid-19 case may have hit China in October 2019

Published in: The Daily Star Date: 25 June, 2021 Reuters, Shanghai The virus that causes Covid-19 could have started spreading in China as early as October […]
June 24, 2021

Serum may resume vaccine export in July/August

Published in: The Business Standard Date: 24 June, 2021 Bangladesh entered into a deal with the Serum Institute of India (SII) to purchase 30 million doses […]
June 24, 2021

FDA to add warning about rare heart inflammation to Pfizer, Moderna vaccines

Published in: The Daily Star Date: 24 June, 2021 Reuters The US Food and Drug Administration said on Wednesday it plans to move quickly to add […]
June 23, 2021

AstraZeneca vaccine effective against Delta, Kappa Covid-19 variants

Published in: The Daily Star Date: 23 June, 2021 Reuters AstraZeneca Plc’s Covid-19 vaccine is effective against Delta and Kappa variants, which were first identified in […]
June 23, 2021

India’s total Covid-19 cases cross 3 crore mark

Published in: The Daily Star Date: 23 June, 2021   Number of India’s total Covid-19 cases has crossed the grim mark of three crore, of which […]
June 23, 2021

No ban on export of vaccine from India but domestic supply to be met first: officials

Published in: The Daily Star Date: 23 June, 2021   With India being battered by the second wave of Covid-19 since February and an acute supply […]