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Bangladesh’s Covid-19 cases surpass 2.5 lakh; 3,333 deaths
The officially confirmed coronavirus cases soared to 2,52,502 on Friday with the detection of 2,851 new cases in the last 24 hours until morning.
No ‘silver bullet’ to combat Covid-19 pandemic: WHO chief
World Health Organization’s chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned on Monday that there’s no silver bullet for a vaccine against Covid-19 pandemic.
Russian ambassador rejects Coid-19 vaccine hacking claims
Russia’s ambassador to Britain has rejected allegations against his country’s intelligence services for hacking information about a coronavirus vaccine.
Dr Tarek Alam: Unleashing the potential of Ivermectin
A highly respected physician and professor of medicine at Bangladesh Medical College (BMC) has been using a combination of two cheap, easily available drugs to treat patients suffering from COVID-19 with great success in reducing the viral load and restricting the severity of disease.
Russian pharmaceutical company inks deal to release Oxford vaccine
Russian pharmaceutical company R-Pharm has signed an agreement on production of a coronavirus vaccine developed by British-Swedish Astra Zeneca and the University of Oxford.
Global vaccine plan may allow rich countries to buy more
Although politicians and public health leaders have publicly committed to equitably sharing, the top global initiative for coronavirus vaccine that works may allow rich countries to reinforce their own stockpiles while making fewer doses available for the poor ones.
Russia likely to have 3-4 coronavirus vaccines, says its health minister
The government of Russia expects that the country will have at least three or four effective vaccines for the coronavirus.
Coronavirus: Race for vaccine could leave some countries behind
As the race for a coronavirus vaccine intensifies, rich countries are rushing to place advance orders for the inevitably limited supply to guarantee their citizens get immunised first.
But this leaves significant questions about whether developing countries will get any vaccine before the pandemic ends, reports AP.
Earlier this month, the UN, International Red Cross and Red Crescent, and others said it was a “moral imperative” that everyone have access to a “people’s vaccine.” But such grand declarations are unenforceable, and the allocation of vaccines could be extremely messy.
Yuan Qiong Hu, a senior legal and policy adviser at Medecins Sans Frontieres in Geneva, said there is no road map on how ensure vaccine for everyone and noted that numerous problems must be resolved to manage distribution and that few measures have been taken.
Speaking at a vaccine summit earlier this month that addressed the thorny issue of equitable distribution, Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo said the global spread of COVID-19 has told us in no uncertain terms that disease knows no boundaries and no country can afford to go it alone."
Russia goes for clinical trial of coronavirus vaccine
Russia on Wednesday begun the process of clinical trial of a locally developed coronavirus vaccine on human body.
Trump optimistic about coronavirus vaccine by late 2020
US President Donald Trump says he is optimistic about having a coronavirus vaccine on the market by the end of this year or thereafter.