Moudud Ahmmed Sujan

Bangladesh will get 1.09 crore doses of the Oxford vaccine for free under the Covax facility by May.

The number of people being vaccinated every day has been dropping over the last three days, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) data.

In 1961, five young friends went for physical check-ups to Dhaka Medical College Hospital on a sudden plan. Of them, four were found to have no issues. But the other friend, Mahbub-uz-Zaman, was diagnosed with diabetes.

The health ministry has started to work on a plan to include university teachers and students in the inoculation campaign to comply with a government decision.

Twenty lakh doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from Serum Institute of India reached the country early today, which is less than half of the monthly supply installment as per a contract.

The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine’s first shot starts its effect three weeks after it is administered and remains effective up to three months, according to a latest study.

“Have you brought the vaccination card, sir?” Rubina Akter asks a middle-aged man who just arrived at a Covid-19 inoculation centre at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital.

While the progress in inoculation drives is good in major cities, including divisional headquarters, it is still poor in small towns and rural areas as people there find the online registration process burdensome, divisional health experts said.

Taking advantage of loopholes in online registration process, some people are faking their identities and registering themselves for the Covid-19 vaccine as healthcare professionals.

The health authorities are now thinking about vaccinating more than 35 lakh people in the first month of the mass inoculation against Covid-19.

Saleha Khatun is 55 and suffers from some health issues. She could not register on surokkha.gov.bd to get Covid-19 vaccine as she had lost her National Identity card a long time ago.

Despite a higher percentage of adolescent girls using some form of menstrual products, the hygiene of menstrual practices remains very low among teenagers aged 15-19, revealed the Bangladesh Adolescent Health and Wellbeing Survey (BAHWS) 2019-20. In the survey, 88 percent respondents mentioned they were harassed during commutes.

The government plans to vaccinate all teachers as it aims to reopen educational institutions, which were closed on March 17 last year to curb the spread of the coronavirus.

Along with her son Rezaur Rahman and his wife Farhana Hossain, 84-year-old Rizia Khatun, an osteoporosis patient, went to the capital’s Mugda Medical College Hospital to take the Covid-19 vaccine yesterday.

The government has allowed people aged 40 and above to register for inoculation against Covid-19 as only a fraction of the people eligible for the shots are responding to the campaign.

Mehedi Hasan took his weak and elderly mother to the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University vaccination centre around noon yesterday.

The coronavirus vaccine is being rolled out across the country today amid lukewarm interest from the people in getting the shots.

The rate of daily positive coronavirus cases dropped to 2.92 percent yesterday, the lowest in more than nine months.

The government has allocated four lakh shots of Covid-19 vaccine for Dhaka district, Prof Meerjady Sabrina Flora, additional director general of the health directorate, said yesterday.

The government has sent 50 lakh vaccine doses, purchased from Serum Institute of India, to 61 districts for the mass inoculation campaign against Covid-19 beginning on February 7.