Health

UK residents returning from coronavirus hotspots abroad will have to quarantine in hotels from 15 February, the government has confirmed. Hotel owners will be asked to provide rooms for more than 1,000 new people every day,...

This week, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is proud to join governments around the world in celebrating World Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) Day and the launch of a new global strategy for NTDs. The...

China plans to provide 10 million doses of Covid-19 jabs to the WHO-backed international vaccine distribution program Covax, Beijing said Wednesday as it seeks to reframe perceptions of its role in the pandemic, reports BSS. The...

Pfizer Inc said on Tuesday it expected to generate $15 billion, or about a quarter of its total revenue this year, from the sale of its COVID-19 vaccine that it has developed with German partner BioNTech....

The results of the final trial of the Russian Sputnik vaccine have been published in the medical journal Lancet. It is said that the Russian vaccine is 92 percent effective in the fight against the coronavirus...

Israel says it is transferring 5,000 doses of Covid vaccine to immunise frontline Palestinian health workers. Israel has one of the most advanced vaccination programmes in the world but Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and...

On 19 January 2020, SERAC-Bangladesh and Community Oncology Centre Trust jointly organized a virtual discussion meeting to mark up the Cervical Cancer Awareness Month. As an expert discussant Chairman of Community Oncology Centre Trust Prof. Sabera...

The European Union issued an angry warning to pharmaceutical group AstraZeneca on Monday over its unexpected delay in delivering millions of doses of its Covid-19 vaccine to the bloc. The British-Swedish company’s announcement “is not acceptable...

Pfizer announced Friday that it will provide up to 40 million of its Covid-19 vaccine doses to poorer countries on a non-profit basis, through the globally-pooled Covax facility. While dozens of the world’s richer countries have...

India Biotech has applied for permission to test the vaccine experimentally in Bangladesh. The company has recently received emergency permission for their vaccine in India. The British news agency Reuters reported on Thursday (January 21st) quoting...