Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque today said people will have to show Covid-19 vaccination certificate to eat meals in restaurant.

People, of any age, with comorbidity or multiple health conditions can take booster shots of Covid-19 vaccine even if they do not receive confirmation SMS, Prof Abul Bashar Mohammad Khurshid Alam, director general of the health directorate, said today.

Thousands of teenagers, many accompanied by their relatives, lined up outside schools and health facilities across India today as the country began vaccinating children aged 15-18 years for the first time amid a surge of Covid cases.

A consignment of 24.91 lakh doses of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccines arrived at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport from the United States today.

India will begin vaccinating children -- between the ages of 15 and 18 -- against Covid-19 for the first time from tomorrow amidst a surge in Covid-19 infections, including the fast-spreading Omicron, in several parts of the country.

With a target to inoculate 3.32 crore people with the first dose of Covid-19 vaccine, the government launched a special vaccination campaign yesterday.

Vaccines remain the best public health measure to protect people from COVID-19, slow transmission, and reduce the likelihood of new variants emerging.

Amid the Covid-19 pandemic raging throughout the best part of 2021, Bangladesh had to tackle myriad challenges to ensure vaccines for its citizens.

One hundred percent of the eligible population received at least one dose of coronavirus vaccine in Bagerhat’s Fakirhat, which has become the first upazila in the country to be so.

Three more cases of Omicron variant of coronavirus have been detected as the new infections continued to rise for the sixth day yesterday.

The government will launch a countrywide special campaign up to ward level tomorrow to inoculate around three crore people with Covid-19 vaccines.

The country recorded a spike in daily Covid cases as the health directorate logged 495 new infections in 24 hours preceding 8:00am yesterday.

Bangladesh will administer 4 crore Covid-19 vaccine doses every month from January, said Health Minister Zahid Maleque on Wednesday.

The health directorate yesterday launched the campaign for administering Covid-19 vaccine booster doses “on a limited scale” in Dhaka.

India has approved Merck’s Covid-19 pill and two more vaccines for emergency use as the world’s second most populous country braces for a possible spike in coronavirus cases due to the rapidly spreading Omicron variant.

Bangladesh this morning officially began administering booster doses of Covid-19 vaccine, but “on a limited scale”.

The government will begin rolling out the booster dose of Covid-19 vaccine on a trial basis for people 60 and over in Dhaka today.

Booster dose of Covid-19 vaccine will officially be administered in Bangladesh from tomorrow, said Health Secretary Lokman Hossain Miah today.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi last night announced Covid-19 vaccine for children between 15 and 18 years of age and booster doses for frontline, healthcare workers and those above the age of 60 from January, amidst mounting cases of Omicron.

British pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca today said that a third, or "booster", dose of its Covid-19 vaccine Vaxzevria (previously AstraZeneca) "significantly" lifted antibody levels against the Omicron strain in a laboratory study.