Two doses of Pfizer or AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine are nearly as effective against the highly transmissible Delta coronavirus variant as they are against the previously dominant Alpha variant, a study published on Wednesday showed.

Britain's Chief Scientific Adviser Patrick Vallance said that 60% of people being admitted to hospital with Covid-19 are unvaccinated, correcting an earlier statement he made on Monday.

When Bangladesh was struggling to get Covid-19 vaccines amid surging infections and deaths, the arrival of 26 lakh vaccine doses over the last one month under the Covax facility offered it a ray of hope.

The health ministry has not worked much on the Gonoshasthaya Kendra’s proposal for buying 20 million Sputnik V vaccine doses from Russia, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has said.

At least 115 Bangladeshi migrant workers who returned home untimely amid the pandemic have faced “wage theft” in different host countries, according to a regional migrant rights group’s report.

Three million doses of Moderna vaccine from the United States arrived in Dhaka under the COVAX facility today.

Health ministry has not gone ahead with Gonoshasthaya Kendra’s proposal of buying 20 million Sputnik V vaccine from Russia, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has said.

People aged 30 and above can register for Covid-19 vaccine on the Surokkha app from today.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia took her first dose of Covid-19 vaccine at Sheikh Russel Gastroliver Institute and Hospital today

Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Vikram Doraiswami has left for India to discuss quick vaccine supply to Bangladesh.

European Union leaders celebrated their coronavirus vaccination programme reaching a higher proportion of its people than in the US, which had outpaced the bloc for months.

The government has decided to lower the age limit to 30 years for Covid vaccination to bring more people under its inoculation campaign.

The United States will send 3 million doses of the Moderna vaccine to Bangladesh tomorrow, taking its total supplies to 5.6 million doses.

Twenty lakh doses of China’s Sinopharm vaccine for Covid-19 will arrive in Dhaka tonight.

Faced with limited resources in research against infectious diseases like Covid-19, Bangladesh has decided to join Seoul-based International Vaccine Institute to build the capacity to produce vaccines locally.

With an aim to encourage city dwellers to take vaccines to prevent Covid-19, Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) set up a vaccine registration booth for people from all walks of life yesterday.

Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar gave no assurance about resuming vaccine supply to Bangladesh anytime soon at a meeting with his Bangladesh counterpart AK Abdul Momen in Uzbekistan yesterday.

Pfizer on Thursday said it was only in talks with the Thai government, after a Thai hospital group said it was signing a deal for 20 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines.

The government would purchase 1.5 crore doses of Sinopharm vaccine from China at a lower price than the one mentioned in the previous agreement.

Gonoshasthaya Kendra (GSK) has asked the government to buy 20 million doses of Russia’s Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine and said that the Gonoshasthaya Nagar Hospital has been appointed the vaccine manufacturer’s sole distributor in Bangladesh.