While people all over the country have been waiting in line for hours to get Covid-19 jabs during the mass vaccination campaign, which began three days ago, many in the port city have been found getting the facilities illegally at their homes.

There is a shortage of vaccines, centres are being provided with only a limited number of doses, and many people are waiting in line but returning unvaccinated.

An article, authored by Parsa Erfani, Agnes Binagwaho, Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh, Muhammad Yunus, Paul Farmer, and Vanessa Kerry, has been published in the British Medical Journal.

Covid-19 vaccination campaign for Rohingyas in the refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar will begin tomorrow, reports our local correspondent quoting the district’s civil surgeon.

The government has politicised the mass vaccination programme by deceiving people, alleged BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday.

The government achieved the target of administering 32 lakh Covid vaccine jabs in just two days though it had fixed a six-day timeline for the mass inoculation drive.

The health directorate has decided to bring expecting and nursing mothers under Covid-19 vaccine coverage.

There were just way more people than vaccine doses available. Many vaccination centres across the country ran out of doses two or three hours after the so-called mass vaccination began.

Dhamrai Municipality Mayor Golam Kabir Mollah was photographed, posing with a syringe containing Covid-19 vaccine next to a jab recipient, as the nationwide mass inoculation drive kicked off today. The photo went viral on social media.

A woman has reportedly received two jabs of Covid-19 vaccine within 30 minutes today at Sarail Annada Government High School vaccination centre in Brahmanbaria.

India has given US pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson's single-dose Covid-19 vaccine emergency use permission in the country.

Physical distancing, the essential health safety rule to prevent Covid-19 transmission, was largely ignored by thousands of people around the country on the first day of the government’s 6-day mass vaccination drive.

The government is going to purchase six crore doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine from China, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said today.

As the Delta variant of Covid-19 keeps wreaking havoc, Bangladesh today started a mass vaccination drive across the country -- aimed at inoculating 32 lakh people in six days.

Although the government had initially planned to inoculate around one crore people against Covid-19 during a six-day special drive beginning today, it has revised down the target to 32 lakh apparently due to a shortage of vaccines.

A “pilot project” of the government’s special countrywide mass vaccination drive at grass-roots level kicks off today.

Three employees at CNN have been fired for violating the network's coronavirus policy by coming into the office unvaccinated, according to US media reports.

A lot of different statements about the Covid-19 vaccination have come from various places. But neither the health ministry nor the health directorate is responsible for all of those statements, Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Director General Professor Abul Bashar Mohammad Khurshid Alam said today.

The last-minute retreat regarding the special vaccination drive has exposed the lack of coordination and planning on the government’s part, experts said.

Bangladesh has urged Italy to waive its present restrictive measures at least for the stranded Bangladeshi expatriates who have fully vaccinated and allow them enter the European country.