Babies born to mothers fully vaccinated against the coronavirus during pregnancy were around 60 per cent less likely to be hospitalised with severe Covid-19, a new study by the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Tuesday (Feb 15).

The health directorate will conduct a special drive to vaccinate one crore people with first jabs of Covid-19 vaccine on February 26.

From now on, children aged between 12 and 17 will get Covid-19 vaccines without any documents, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said yesterday.

Any child, aged between 12 and 17, will get Covid-19 vaccine without any document from now on, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said today.

Getting the COVID-19 vaccine is critical to your protection. When COVID-19 cases spread, everyone is at risk of contracting the infection.

Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) late last year quietly shut down the only plant making usable batches of its COVID-19 vaccine, the New York Times reported, citing people familiar with the decision.

The United States today donated additional six million doses of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine to Bangladesh via Covax, bringing the total US vaccine contribution to over 45 million free doses, with millions more scheduled to arrive over the coming months.

The Drug Controller General of India has given its nod to Serum Institute of India's proposal to manufacture vaccine against the fast-transmissible Omicron variant of Covid-19, for examination test and analysis, official sources said today.

A scientist at Oxford University, who worked on the development of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, has criticised scientists and politicians, especially decision-makers in the European Union, for damaging the reputation of the jab that “probably killed hundreds of thousands of people”, reports BBC.

All citizens of the country will get two doses of vaccine and the booster dose against Covid-19 by December as per target, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said today.

Bangladesh is closing in on the milestone of vaccinating 10 crore people with the first Covid-19 dose despite facing many a challenge.

The government has started administering Covid-19 vaccine to the floating population at Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka from tonight.

The health directorate started a special drive to inoculate Qawmi madrasa students with Covid-19 vaccines today.

A study in monkeys pitting the current Moderna Inc Covid-19 booster against an Omicron-specific booster showed no significant differences in protection, suggesting an Omicron-specific booster may not be needed, US government researchers reported on Friday.

European Investment Bank (EIB), the bank of the European Union and the largest multilateral lender in the world, will provide €250 million to Bangladesh to support procurement of safe and effective vaccines and country-wide immunisation against Covid-19.

Pfizer on Tuesday asked the US to authorize extra-low doses of its COVID-19 vaccine for children under 5, potentially opening the way for the very youngest Americans to start receiving shots as early as March.

US health regulators on Monday granted full approval to Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine, a shot that’s already been given to tens of millions of Americans since its emergency authorization over a year ago.

The US has donated an additional 10 million doses of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine to Bangladesh via COVAX, bringing the total US contribution to more than 38.6 million doses -- with millions more scheduled to arrive over the coming months.

India says it has fully vaccinated 75 percent of its estimated 94 crore adult population with Covid-19 vaccines.

The government has again lowered the age limit -- to 40 -- for booster dose of Covid-19 vaccine.