COVID-19 vaccine

This picture taken on May 17, 2022 and released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on May 18 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (C) attending a meeting of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea in Pyongyang

Kim slams negligent officials over spiralling North Korea Covid outbreak

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said the negligence and laziness of state officials worsened the country's Covid outbreak, state media reported Wednesday, as the number of known cases crossed 1.7 ...

Workers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) are seen while a resident (C) boards a bus on a street during a Covid-19 coronavirus lockdown in the Jing'an district in Shanghai on 14 May, 2022

Shanghai says 'zero-Covid' achieved but millions still in lockdown

Shanghai on Tuesday declared it had achieved "zero-Covid" across all its districts, sparking derision on social media as millions in China's biggest city remained under lockdown

This picture taken on May 16, 2022 and released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on 17 May shows officers of the military medical field of the Korean People's Army going to supply medicines to resolve the epidemic prevention crisis

North Korean military ramps up Covid response as outbreak grows

North Korean military medics ramped up the distribution of medicines to fight a growing coronavirus outbreak, state media said on Tuesday, with the number of reported cases of "fever" nearing 1.5 ...

Factfile on Covid-19 outbreak in North Korea, as of 13 May, 2022

North Korea reports 15 more 'fever' deaths amid Covid outbreak

North Korea on Sunday reported 15 additional deaths from "fever", days after officially confirming its first-ever Covid-19 cases and ordering nationwide lockdowns

A man wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) rides a bicycle along a quiet street in Beijing on 9 May, 2022. Millions of people in Beijing stayed home on May 9 as China's capital tries to fend off a Covid-19 outbreak with creeping restrictions on movement

Downtown Beijing goes quiet as zero-Covid policy smothers capital

Millions of people in Beijing stayed home on Monday as China's capital tries to fend off a Covid-19 outbreak with creeping restrictions on movement

A medical worker in protective suit collects a swab from a man to conduct free nucleic acid tests for residents in the residential compound, after new cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) were found in Urumqi, Xinjiang province, China on 19 July 2020.

Covid-19: Bangladesh reports 10 new cases, no death

Bangladesh reported 10 Covid cases in 24 hours until Saturday morning which took the total caseload to 1,952,776

Health workers inoculate a woman with Covid-19 vaccine at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital in Dhaka.

Covid recovery index: Bangladesh top in South Asia, globally 5th

Bangladesh’s Covid-19 infections have been on a downward spiral in recent months

A health worker from Thanyarak Pattani Hospital conducts a swab test on a woman for the Covid-19 coronavirus at Pattani Central Mosqe in Pattani on 21 February, 2022

Global Covid cases top 515 million

The overall number of Covid cases has surged past 515 million amid a rise in new infections in parts of the world

The US donates Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine to Bangladesh

Distributive justice and US donation of Covid-19 vaccine to Bangladesh

Considering the dire necessity of the Covid-19 vaccination, the affluent nations should render their economic hands for the least developed and poor countries so that they can administer the ...

In this file illustration photo taken on 17 November 2020 are pictured vials with Covid-19 Vaccine stickers attached and syringes with the logo of US pharmaceutical company Pfizer and German partner BioNTech

US donates another 3m Covid-19 vaccine to Bangladesh

This shipment contains a new ready-to-go formulation of Pfizer vaccines that does not require mixing before being administered

A health worker takes swab sample on a woman to be tested for Covid-19 coronavirus at a swab collection site along a street in Beijing on 25 April, 2022

Covid-19 Beijing expands mass testing as lockdown fears grow

Beijing on Tuesday launched mass coronavirus testing for nearly all its 21 million residents, as fears grew that the Chinese capital may be placed under a strict lockdown like Shanghai

A resident has a sample taken to be tested for the Covid-19 coronavirus at a swab collection site in Beijing on 25 April, 2022

Covid spike prompts mass testing in Beijing again

Fears of a hard Covid lockdown sparked panic buying in Beijing on Monday, as long queues for compulsory mass testing formed in a large central district of the Chinese capital

Health and family welfare minister Zahid Maleque

People now safe from Covid-19: Health Minister

Bangladesh is moving forward economically and socially facing all hurdles of the Covid-19 pandemic, the minister added

A woman consults a doctor before swab testing at Mugda Medical College and Hospital, as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak continues, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 23 June 2020

Bangladesh logs 26 new Covid cases, no death

Bangladesh logged 26 fresh Covid-19 cases in 24 hours till Saturday morning taking the total caseload to 1,952,532

Commodity prices, brand of justice and vaccine costs

Commodity prices, brand of justice and vaccine costs

Whether it is about the prices of essentials, the questionable dispensing of justice or the lack of transparency in vaccine procurement, the government faces a barrage of allegations

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