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.

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.

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.