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.
The government has decided to restart distribution and administration of Covid-19 vaccines amid recent rise in infection across the country
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
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
The world's first intranasal Covid-19 vaccine was launched in India's New Delhi today.
A special campaign for administering the fourth Covid-19 vaccine dose starts today.
A special campaign for administering fourth Covid vaccine dose will start on December 20.
Administration of the fourth dose of Covid vaccine will begin on December 20 at seven vaccination centres in Dhaka.
Those, who are yet to be vaccinated, can still take the first dose of Covid-19 vaccine at permanent vaccination centres across the country.
Barishal, Mymensingh, and Sylhet divisions have yet to reach the target of inoculating 70 percent of the population aged 12 years and above.
Bangladesh has become the largest recipient of Covid-19 vaccine doses from the US.
Nearly 71 percent of the country’s population aged over 12 have now got at least one dose of a Covid vaccine with around 1.12 crore people receiving their first jab on Saturday.
Health Minister Zahid Maleque today said one crore and 20 lakh people received Covid-19 vaccine yesterday.
Police arrested two persons for selling Covid-19 vaccines in Gazipur’s Sreepur upazila yesterday.
After people swarmed vaccine centres for their first Covid-19 dose under a daylong special campaign yesterday, health authorities announced the programme would continue till tomorrow.
Health Minister Zahid Maleque today said that there is no need to be worried as from today onwards, all doses -- including the first dose -- will continue.
A man died soon after receiving a Covid-19 shot at a vaccine centre in Chattogram this afternoon.
The nationwide mass campaign for the first dose of Covid-19 vaccines will continue till February 28.