COVID-19 vaccine
People's Lives Must Matter More Than Pharma Companies' Profit
History of human beings is a history of being driven basically by collective interest, not by personal interest. Economists made us believe that we are driven only by personal interest, and act accordingly through profit maximization. It is time to restore our core identity by making businesses to serve society’s needs first and foremost; profit cannot come at the expense of human well-being, and human life. Nowhere should that be more true than our health—which was enshrined by our leaders as a fundamental right when I was merely 6 years old, in the 1946 constitution of the World Health Organization.
French President Macron tests positive for COVID-19
French President Emmanuel Macron has tested positive for COVID-19, the presidential Elysee Palace announced on Thursday.
Covid-19 vaccines for all: An ‘acid test’ for global leaders
Equitable distribution of Covid-19 vaccines will represent an “acid test” for the international community.
Poor countries’ long wait for Covid-19 vaccines
The route out of the pandemic now seems far longer and rougher for poorer countries while Americans, Britons and Canadians are rolling up their sleeves to receive Covid-19 shots.
Bangladesh reports rise in daily Covid-19 deaths; 40 more die
The death toll from Covid-19 rose to 7,129 in Bangladesh on Tuesday as health authorities reported 40 more deaths in 24 hours.
Teachers should be prioritized for vaccination against COVID-19: UNICEF
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has called for teachers to be prioritized to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, once frontline health personnel and high-risk populations are vaccinated.
‘Relieved’: US health workers start getting COVID-19 vaccine
The biggest vaccination campaign in U.S. history kicked off Monday as health workers rolled up their sleeves for shots to protect them from COVID-19 and start beating back the pandemic — a day of optimism even as the nation’s death toll closed in on 300,000.
Covid-19: Bangladesh sees 37 more deaths, 1,799 new cases
The health authorities in Bangladesh on Monday reported 1,799 new Covid -19 cases in 24 hours, pushing the country’s total tally 492,332.
Besides, 37 more people died from the disease during the period, raising the death toll to 7,089.
The mortality rate was recordrd 1.44 percent, said the Directorate General of Health Services.
COVID-19 vaccine shipments begin in US
The first shipments of a COVID-19 vaccine for widespread use in the United States headed Sunday from Michigan to distribution centers across the country.
All EU countries to start vaccinations on same day
Italy's special commissioner for the pandemic says the vaccination campaign against COVID-19 will begin in all 27 European Union countries on the same “symbolic” day, to be followed with individual countries’ rollouts of larger inoculation programs.