The ongoing pandemic is leaving an adverse effect on education, employment and mental condition of the country’s youth population, adding a new form of disengagement to the youth cohort.

Luta Haider Rashid, chairman of Rajshahi’s Tanore upazila, was administered his second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine in his government residence  on Tuesday, flouting vaccination rules.

Herd immunity is “not a possibility” with the current spread of the Delta variant due to it still infecting vaccinated individuals, the head of the Oxford Vaccine Group Andrew Pollard said.

UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, has welcomed the vaccination campaign in Bangladesh’s Rohingya refugee camps, in line with national authorities’ broader public health efforts.

1.77 million more doses of Sinopharm vaccines, under the COVAX programme, has departed China’s Beijing via an Emirates flight at 7:20 this morning (Beijing time).

A total of 1,47,69,447 people have received the first dose of Covid-19 vaccine across the country till yesterday (August 10), according to a press release issued from the health directorate.

Bangladesh government is going to procure six crore more doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine from China.

Department General of Health Services served show-cause notice to a health worker in Rajshahi’s Tanore upazila in connection with giving the local chairman Covid-19 jab at his home.

Facebook said on Tuesday it had removed a network of accounts from Russia that it linked to a marketing firm which aimed to enlist influencers to push anti-vaccine content about the Covid-19 jabs.

The government has decided to suspend administering the first dose of Moderna Covid vaccine from tomorrow.

The chaotic unfolding of the mass vaccination programme is making it clear that the government is progressing without any plan, alleged Jatiya Party chairperson and deputy leader of the opposition GM Quader.

A temporary waiver of intellectual property rights for Covid-19 vaccines is vital to increase supply, achieve global herd immunity, and advance global health equity, Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus and five others have said in an article published in the BMJ (formerly British Medical Journal).

Authorities of Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) suspended Bishu Dey, a health staffer of Mostafa Hakim Maternity Hospital, which is run by CCC, for his alleged connection with misappropriating Covid-19 vaccines and "vaccinating people at home in exchange for money".

A consignment of 17 lakh Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine doses, under the COVAX facility, reached Dhaka this evening from China.

Vaccination against Covid-19 began at Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar district today.

The government has decided to stop administering the first dose of Moderna Covid-19 vaccine from August 12.

Rajshahi City Corporation today suspended the six-day Covid-19 vaccination campaign, on its fourth day, due to lack of vaccine doses.

Bangladesh government’s Covid-19 mass vaccination drive reached the Rangamati hills today, all thanks to the local administration and the Bangladeshi armed forces.

Under the COVAX programme, 1.7 million doses of Sinopharm vaccine have departed Beijing at 5:25 am (local time) and will reach Dhaka this morning. 

The government is not likely to launch the planned special vaccination programme from August 14 as inadequate vaccine doses mire the current inoculation drive against Covid-19.