From now on, Covid-19 frontline health workers’ family members -- aged 18 and above -- will get vaccines, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said yesterday.

Health Minister Zahid Maleque today said the government will receive around 21 crore doses of Covid-19 vaccines early next year to bring 80 percent of the country's population under vaccination coverage.

Drugmaker AstraZeneca said Saturday (July 24) it was scouring its supply chain to find more doses of its Covid-19 vaccine for South-east Asia, which is facing its most serious outbreak yet of the virus.

Family members of frontline workers, aged 18 and above, will get Covid-19 vaccines from now on, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said today.

Japan has sent 2.45 lakh AstraZeneca vaccines under the COVAX facility today.

The government is planning to lower the age limit for Covid-19 vaccination to 18 years from 30, Prof ABM Khurshid Alam, the director general of the health directorate, said yesterday.

Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus has reiterated the call for ensuring vaccine equality around the world.

India is working to resume the export of Covid vaccine jabs to Bangladesh as vaccine production in India is growing rapidly, said Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Vikram Kumar Doraiswami yesterday.

A total of 2.45 lakh AstraZeneca vaccines will be arriving in Bangladesh from Japan tomorrow.

Government is planning to lower the age limit from 30 to 18 years to be eligible for Covid-19 vaccine shot among mass people.

A longer gap between doses of Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine leads to higher overall antibody levels than a shorter gap, a British study found on Friday, but there is a sharp drop in antibody levels after the first dose.

The global Covid-19 caseload is inching closer to the 192-million mark, as the second wave of the pandemic continues to devastate countries across the world even with mass inoculations underway.

Indonesia has converted nearly its entire oxygen production to medical use just to meet the demand from COVID-19 patients struggling to breathe. Overflowing hospitals in Malaysia had to resort to treating patients on the floor. And in Myanmar’s largest city, graveyard workers have been laboring day and night to keep up with the grim demand for new cremations and burials.

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.

The highly contagious Delta variant of Covid-19 is expected to become the dominant strain of the virus over the coming months, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.

The Tokyo Olympics should not be judged by the tally of Covid-19 cases that arise because eliminating risk is impossible, the head of the World Health Organization told sports officials as events began in Japan.

Two-thirds of India’s population have antibodies against the coronavirus, according to data released from a survey of 29,000 people across the nation conducted in June and July.

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.