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.

The continued spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has spawned a Greek alphabet of variants - a naming system used by the World Health Organization to track concerning new mutations of the virus that causes COVID-19. Some have equipped the virus with better ways of infecting humans or evading vaccine protection.

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.

With an aim to help people in rural areas, a welfare organisation on Friday distributed 8 oxygen cylinders and other medical equipment in Moulvibazar. Hazipur Society handed over the equipment to local volunteer groups in post office area of Kulaura’s Hazipur union.

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.

There are early signs that people who have been vaccinated against Covid-19 may be able to transmit the Delta variant of the virus as easily as those who have not, scientists at Public Health England (PHE) said on Friday.

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.

Scientists from the world’s four major economies, India, China, Russia and Brazil, have come together to carry out genomic sequencing of Covid-19 and studies on the epidemiology and mathematical modelling of the pandemic.

Fully vaccinated people who get a Covid-19 breakthrough infection can transmit the virus, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr Rochelle Walensky said yesterday according to CNN.

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.