Mohammad Al-Masum Molla

With the stock of Covid-19 vaccine depleting fast, the government’s mass inoculation programme might soon come to a screeching halt.

With the guard against Covid-19 lowered, health officials and experts fear that the country is heading towards a grimmer health crisis.

An uncharacteristically indelicate exchange regarding a four-country alliance called “the Quad”, which includes India and the US, seems to have heated up the otherwise smooth Dhaka-Beijing diplomatic relations.

Those returning to the country from India will be released from institutional quarantine only upon completing the 14-day quarantine period and testing negative for Covid-19.

The recent arrival of the double mutant Indian Covid-19 variant in Bangladesh is due to the lack of strict enforcement of institutional quarantine for those returning from India.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia tested negative for Covid-19 last night and her condition improved slightly.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s doctors said she can be taken abroad once she becomes consistently stable.

Russia has offered Bangladesh the Sputnik V vaccine at a rate of $9.95 for each dose.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s health might not be stable enough for a long flight, her doctors said as her family members want to take her abroad for better treatment.

The stock of Oxford-AstraZeneca doses is running out fast but the government, despite frantic efforts to keep the inoculation campaign on track, is yet to secure a contract for bulk supply of alternative Covid-19 vaccines.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s family has sought permission from the government to take her abroad for better treatment.

The government has made considerable progress in procuring Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine with health officials now working on finalising a government-to-government contract.

As the demand for oxygen increased at hospitals amid this second wave of the pandemic, a group of Buet researchers has developed a low-cost portable ventilator that can deliver oxygen to patients efficiently without electricity.

Serum Institute of India has been in talks with Beximco about producing the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh will receive over five lakh doses of China’s Sinopharm vaccine on May 10 if everything goes as planned.

Muhammad Asaduzzaman, a doctor treating Covid-19 patients, has nightmares that people are gasping for air and pleading to be saved.

In a desperate attempt to keep the mass vaccination campaign on track, the government yesterday gave emergency use authorisation to Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine.

Masks work best when everyone wears them, but not at the time when someone puts it on incorrectly.

The government is seriously considering importing Covid-19 vaccines from Sinopharm of China and Russia’s Sputnik V in order to ensure continuation of the ongoing mass vaccination programme.

Bangladesh will not get the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from India anytime soon, India has said.