The World Health Organization has urged countries to avoid giving out extra Covid jabs until year-end, pointing to the millions worldwide who have yet to receive a single dose.

A woman has been "mistakenly" administered two doses of Covid-19 vaccine at Baliadangi Upazila Health Complex in Thakurgaon, health officials said today.

Getting tested and vaccinated for Covid-19 was no less than a trauma for Tanisha Yasmin Chaity, a young transwoman and a development worker based in Cox’s Bazar.

As the number of people who registered for Covid vaccine is much higher than the capacity of vaccination centres, people are receiving texts late, Nazmul Islam, spokesperson for the health directorate, said yesterday.

A 79-year-old woman reportedly received two jabs of Covid-19 vaccine within five minutes today at Pirgacha Upazila Health Complex vaccination centre in Rangpur.

The first day of the Covid-19 second dose vaccine rollout marked much enthusiasm among the people in all centres across the country yesterday.

Information Minister Hasan Mahmud, who is visiting India -- ahead of his proposed meetings with Indian foreign, and information and broadcasting ministers -- has said that New Delhi assured Dhaka of more deliveries of Covid-19 vaccines “when the situation further improves here [in India].”

A Chinese study looking at mixing COVID-19 vaccines showed that receiving a booster shot of CanSino Biologics' vaccine after one or two doses of Sinovac Biotech's (SVA.O) vaccine yielded a much stronger antibody response than using the Sinovac shot as a booster.

German brand KiK has contributed to purchase Covid-19 vaccines for garment factory workers in Bangladesh.

Japan has agreed to buy 150 million doses of Novavax's coronavirus vaccine, with Japanese firm Takeda expecting to manufacture the formula for distribution early next year, the drugmaker said Tuesday.

Bangladesh’s Information Minister Hasan Mahmud, who is visiting India -- ahead of his proposed meetings with Indian foreign, and information and broadcasting ministers -- has said that New Delhi assured Dhaka of more deliveries of Covid-19 vaccines "when the situation further improves here."

Cuba on Monday became the first country in the world to vaccinate children from the age of two against Covid-19, using home-grown jabs not recognized by the World Health Organization.

The mass vaccination drive to inoculate around 34 lakh people with the second dose of Covid-19 vaccine has started this morning across the country.

The government’s plan to inoculate people from almost all age groups including adolescents without ensuring a steady supply of vaccines appears to be anything but practical.

The number of new cases increased slightly with 2,710 infections recorded in the 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday.

China National Biotec Group has suggested Chinese authorities offer the public an additional third shot of its COVID-19 inactivated vaccines as a booster shot, according to a senior executive of the company.

Health Minister Zahed Maleque today reiterated that upon recommendations from WHO and Covid-19 Technical Committee of the country, the government will administer vaccine to children and adolescents -- aged between 12 and 17 years.

In absence of any systematic plan from the government or the BGMEA, an overwhelming majority of workers in Ashulia and Savar industrial belt are yet to be registered for Covid-19 vaccines.

The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has stated that there is currently no plan in place to vaccinate under 18 individuals against Covid-19.

According to the current date, in Bangladesh about 4.4% (7.13 M) of the population is fully vaccinated and about 24.8 million doses have given. However, these number could be much higher if the people would much aware of being vaccinated but for being illiterate and spreading misconception through different medium most of the elderly citizens are not willing to take the vaccine.