After taking the first shot of Covid-19 vaccine at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), Gonoshasthaya Kendra founder and trustee Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury today called upon all to get inoculated.

Covid-19 vaccination has begun across the country this morning.

India is developing seven more Covid-19 vaccines and also working on further vaccine development to inoculate every citizen of the country, Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said yesterday.

Indonesia has approved Sinovac Biotech’s Covid-19 vaccine for use in the elderly, a letter from the food and drug agency shows, potentially changing the country’s strategy which has prioritised its working population first.

Sinovac Biotech said on Saturday that its unit's Covid-19 vaccine has been approved for use by the general public by China's medical products regulator.

Eight people have died from Covid-19 in 24 hours (till 8am today), according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

The countrywide Covid-19 vaccination will start tomorrow in 1,005 centres across the country.

A year after his death from Covid-19, residents in the Chinese city of Wuhan say they remain grateful to the "whistleblower" doctor who first sounded the alarm about the outbreak before it received official recognition.

At least seven people died of Covid-19 and 435 people were infected with coronavirus in 24 hours (till 8:00am today), according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Bangladesh had offered 5,000 doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine to Hungary, but the European country has refused the offer, according to a report by Hungary Today.

Pfizer Inc has withdrawn an application for emergency-use authorization of its Covid-19 vaccine in India that it has developed with Germany’s BioNTech, the company told Reuters today.

Bangladesh’s Beximco Pharmaceuticals Ltd said on Thursday the Serum Institute of India (SII) had delayed the first supplies of a Covid-19 vaccine for private sale, instead prioritising government immunisation campaigns.

Governments and developers around the world are exploring the potential use of “vaccine passports” as a way of reopening the economy by identifying those protected against the coronavirus.

The world faces around 4,000 variants of the virus that causes Covid-19, prompting a race to improve vaccines, Britain said on Thursday, as researchers began to explore mixing doses of the Pfizer and AstraZeneca shots.

Thirteen people have died from Covid-19 in 24 hours (till 8am today), according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Health Minister Zahid Maleque has said some 1.5 lakh people have registered online to take Covid-19 vaccine doses till this noon.

Britain on Thursday launched a trial to assess the immune responses generated if doses of the Covid-19 vaccines from Pfizer Inc and AstraZeneca Plc are combined in a two-shot schedule.

With the rollout of the Covid-19 vaccination programme, the United Nations has urged key workers and other vulnerable people in 145 countries to get immunised by the first half of this year.

Bangladesh will get 1,27,92,000 vaccines from the COVAX programme, led by the World Health Organization and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.

India's Serum Institute will supply 1.1 billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines developed by AstraZeneca and Novavax to the COVAX vaccine scheme as part of a new long-term deal, the head of the UN Children's Fund said on Wednesday.