Vaccine
Bangladesh seeks UK support for vaccine centre
Health Minister Dr Samanta Lal Sen has sought support from the Oxford Vaccine Group at the University of Oxford to establish a vaccine centre in Bangladesh.
Covid-19 vaccination campaign to restart: DGHS
The government has decided to restart distribution and administration of Covid-19 vaccines amid recent rise in infection across the country
From Covid to cancer: High hopes for Nobel mRNA vaccines
The coronavirus pandemic brought global renown to the mRNA technology that underpins vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna, and on Monday earned a Nobel Prize for two scientists who have been key to its development
US government to urge Americans to get new Covid-19 boosters
The Biden administration plans to urge all Americans to get a booster shot for the coronavirus this autumn to counter a new wave of infections, a White House official said on Sunday
World's first intranasal Covid vaccine launched in Delhi
The world's first intranasal Covid-19 vaccine was launched in India's New Delhi today.
Fourth Covid-19 shot campaign begins
A special campaign for administering the fourth Covid-19 vaccine dose starts today.
Administration of 4th Covid dose to start Dec 20
A special campaign for administering fourth Covid vaccine dose will start on December 20.
Administration of 4th Covid jab to start Dec 20
Administration of the fourth dose of Covid vaccine will begin on December 20 at seven vaccination centres in Dhaka.
Covid Vaccination: Govt to lower age bar to 30 years
The government has decided to lower the age limit to 30 years for Covid vaccination to bring more people under its inoculation campaign.
3m Moderna shots to arrive tomorrow
The United States will send 3 million doses of the Moderna vaccine to Bangladesh tomorrow, taking its total supplies to 5.6 million doses.
20 lakh doses of Sinopharm arrive today
Twenty lakh doses of China’s Sinopharm vaccine for Covid-19 will arrive in Dhaka tonight.
Vaccine Production: Dhaka to join int’l institute to build capacity
Faced with limited resources in research against infectious diseases like Covid-19, Bangladesh has decided to join Seoul-based International Vaccine Institute to build the capacity to produce vaccines locally.
CMP introduces vaccine reg booth for general people
With an aim to encourage city dwellers to take vaccines to prevent Covid-19, Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) set up a vaccine registration booth for people from all walks of life yesterday.
Astrazeneca Vaccine: No assurance from India on resuming supply to Bangladesh
Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar gave no assurance about resuming vaccine supply to Bangladesh anytime soon at a meeting with his Bangladesh counterpart AK Abdul Momen in Uzbekistan yesterday.
Pfizer says only in talks with government bodies in Thailand
Pfizer on Thursday said it was only in talks with the Thai government, after a Thai hospital group said it was signing a deal for 20 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines.
China vaccine at ‘lower price’
The government would purchase 1.5 crore doses of Sinopharm vaccine from China at a lower price than the one mentioned in the previous agreement.
Buy 20m doses of Sputnik V
Gonoshasthaya Kendra (GSK) has asked the government to buy 20 million doses of Russia’s Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine and said that the Gonoshasthaya Nagar Hospital has been appointed the vaccine manufacturer’s sole distributor in Bangladesh.
Outgoing migrants to get Moderna jabs
Several hundred expatriate migrant workers -- mostly from Saudi Arabia -- yesterday demonstrated for a few hours at the vaccination centre at Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital (SSMCH), demanding they be adminstered the Pfizer vaccine.