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Addis Ababa, March 28 : The number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in Africa has reached 4,166,555 as of Saturday noon, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said.The Africa CDC, the specialized healthcare agency of the Afric…

Dhaka, March 28 : A special flight carrying Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his delegation left the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport here on Saturday night after the completion of Modi’s two-day visit to Bangladesh.Bangladesh Foreign Mi…

London, March 28 : Another 4,715 people in Britain have tested positive for Covid-19, bringing the total number of coronavirus cases in the country to 4,329,180, according to official figures released on Saturday.The country also reported another 58 …

Washington, March 27 : The overall number of global Covid-19 cases has surpassed 126 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.76 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.In its latest update on Saturday morning, the University’s…

San Francisco, March 27 : Ecommerce giant Amazon has received the emergency use authorisation (EUA) from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a Covid-19 test kit made by its subsidiary STS Lab Holdco.Amazon plans to use the real-time RT-PCR …

United Nations, March 27 : At the forefront of the global fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, India has supplied more vaccines to people around the world than inoculating its own citizens, according to New Delhi’s Deputy Permanent Representative to …

London, March 27 : More than 40,600 people were likely infected with Covid-19 while being treated in hospitals across England for another reason between August 2020 and March this year, local media reported.Across England as a whole, about 15 per cen…

London/New Delhi, March 27 : In a last ditch effort, Pakistani agencies exercised all available resources to thwart extradition of Dawood’s Ibrahim’s key finance manager and drug operator Jabir Motiwala to the US.Officials of Pakistan’s High Commissi…

Dhaka, March 27 : The Foreign Minister of Bangladesh, A.K. Abdul Momen, told visiting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday that Bangladesh would continue the ‘golden chapter’ of bilateral relations between the two countries for the next 50 y…

Paris, March 27 : France has accused the UK of “blackmail” over its handling of the coronavirus vaccine exports, amid continuing tensions over supply chains.Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian was asked whether the EU had been “scammed” by sending mi…