Three homegrown treatments for the novel coronavirus are expected to receive approval as early as the first half of this year as the country speeds up the approval process amid the pandemic.

A team from the World Health Organization is scheduled to visit later this week a laboratory in China's Wuhan, from which the novel coronavirus is rumored to have accidentally released, sources close to the matter said Monday.

2020 was like a vertigo-experience for all of us—sometimes it felt like living secluded, confined in the idea of a fictitious border at the edge of the world, and harking back to those memories we have made before the pandemic tumbled upon us.

Mentioning that Russia's Sputnik V vaccine is 96 percent effective, Alexander Gintsburg, the head of the vaccine’s developer, Gamaleya National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology, said it is likely to offer two-year-long protection against the novel coronavirus.

Dismissing claims surrounding the origins of the novel Coronavirus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has reaffirmed the natural origin of the virus, reports Xinhua.

Health authorities in Bangladesh on Sunday reported 1,973 new Covid-19 cases in 24 hours, which was the lowest since August 4 when 1,918 cases were detected across the country.  With the latest ones, the total number of Covid-19 cases in the country jumped to 2,94,598 in the 24th

Some top scientists have rejected a conspiracy theory claiming that the novel coronavirus was made in a lab.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sunday called on the people to fully adhere to health guidelines amid the resurgence of COVID-19 in most parts of the country.

All available evidence to date suggests that the novel coronavirus, which has caused the ongoing pandemic, has a natural animal origin and is not a manipulated or constructed virus, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a daily situation report on Thursday.

Bangladesh observed its Independence Day on Thursday but this year all programmes were cancelled as part of measures to curb the possible transmission of novel coronavirus (COVID-19).