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Bangladesh will start the nationwide COVID-19 vaccine distribution from early February.

A year into the Covid-19 pandemic, the US is still fighting a brutal battle against the virus as its total number of infections has topped 25 million.

The decline in FDI inflows was concentrated in developed countries, where fund flows fell by 69 per cent to an estimated USD 229 billion.

Arrivals will be banned and landings will be permitted only in a few exceptions including cargo flights, medical emergencies, and fire service flights.

The total death toll in the country due to the infection mounted to 1,53,470 including the new deaths.

As of Monday morning, the country's overall caseload has increased to 1,752,347, while the death toll stood at 149,614, currently the fourth largest in the world.

The US is the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 25,123,857 and 419,204, respectively.

UK's Deputy Chief Medical Officer Jonathan Van-Tam stressed that scientists "do not yet know the impact of the vaccine on transmission"

Between Friday and Saturday, 29,560 Covid tests were conducted in the State while reports of another 590 samples were awaited

The 44-year old ASHA worker complained of severe headache and fever on January 22, three days after she took a shot of the coronavirus vaccine.

Sputnik V is the third vaccine to be approved for the emergency use in the country, the report said.

The UK took 18 days whereas USA took 10 days to reach the one million mark, the Union Health Ministry highlighted.

Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield said on Sunday the case was a 56-year-old woman who recently returned from Europe.

The active COVID-19 caseload of the country remained below two lakh for the fifth consecutive day.

India comes in second place in terms of cases at 10,639,684, while the country's death toll soared to 153,184.

On the fifth day i.e. on Friday, authorities had set a target of administering the Covid vaccine to 28,433 healthcare workers out of which 12,944 were inoculated

Also, 351 persons were cured of Covid on Thursday, taking the cumulative recoveries to 2,87,468 with a recovery rate of 98 per cent, against the country’s 96.6 per cent

The prime minister had launched the nationwide inoculation drive on January 16 with over three crore healthcare and frontline workers prioritised to get the jabs initially.

Mongolia closed its borders last January and has held coronavirus cases to just 1,592, although many Mongolians have protested at the economic impact of control measures.

Scientists know that SARS-CoV-2 binds the ACE2 receptor on the surface of human cells, after which it enters the cell through a process known as endocytosis.