Britain’s health chief said that a new study suggesting that a single dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine provides a high level of protection for 12 weeks supports the government’s strategy of delaying the second shot so it can protect more people quickly with a first dose.

Some 74,000 people have registered online as of this morning to take vaccines ahead of the countrywide inoculation campaign slated to begin on February 7, Prof ABM Khurshid Alam, the director general of the health directorate said.

China on Wednesday announced a plan to provide 10 million coronavirus vaccine doses to developing nations through the global COVAX initiative.

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).

World Health Organization investigators on Wednesday visited a research centre in the Chinese city of Wuhan that has been the subject of speculation about the origins of the coronavirus.

Scientists gave Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine the green light saying it was almost 92% effective in fighting Covid-19 based on peer-reviewed late-stage trial results published in The Lancet international medical journal.

The health minister today urged representatives and government officials to join the Covid-19 vaccination campaign.

The coronavirus mutation “of most concern” that could impact vaccine efficacy has occurred spontaneously in the UK variant, a professor of outbreak medicine who is part of a panel that advises the British government said on Tuesday.

Twelve 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).

Prominent banker, economist and former deputy governor of Bangladesh Bank, Khondkar Ibrahim Khaled has tested positive for coronavirus infection and is in a critical state.

All healthcare workers across the country have to stay at workstation until February 10 for Covid-19 vaccination.

Ten 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).

Sixteen 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).

State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam today told the parliament that Hungary has requested Bangladesh for 5,000 shots of Covid-19 vaccine.

As the countrywide inoculation will start from February 7, the Covid-19 vaccines have already reached 36 districts while the rest will be delivered by tomorrow.

Consignment of Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines reached Chattogram city this morning as vaccination in the district is scheduled to start on February 7.

Britain’s foreign minister today said the EU had reassured him the European Union did not want to disrupt supplies of Covid-19 vaccines to the United Kingdom after the bloc said it planned to control exports.

Seventeen 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).

Regulators authorized AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine for use in adults throughout the European Union on Friday, amid criticism the bloc is not moving fast enough to vaccinate its population.

Novavax Inc said on Thursday its coronavirus vaccine was 89.3% effective in preventing COVID-19 in a trial conducted in the United Kingdom, and was nearly as effective in protecting against the more highly contagious variant first discovered in the UK, according to a preliminary analysis.