India today completed the first year of its Covid-19 vaccination campaign as it continues to battle the Omicron-driven surge of the pandemic.

The COVAX global vaccine-sharing programme has delivered 1 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses, one of the organisations which manages it said on Saturday.

The United States yesterday donated 9.6 million doses of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine to Bangladesh, a gift from the American people.

The US today provided 9.6 million doses of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine to Bangladesh -- bringing the overall contribution from the country to over 28 million doses.

Developing countries turned away some 100 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines because they were about to expire, the United Nations said.

Hundreds of vaccine seekers, not enough space for social distancing, inadequate number of attendants to organise jab recipients and confusion about whether certain doses will be administered.

The government has decided to use the Covid-19 vaccine of Moderna as a booster dose instead of Pfizer jabs.

AstraZeneca (AZN.L) said on Thursday that preliminary data from a trial showed that its COVID-19 shot, Vaxzevria, generated an increase in antibodies against the Omicron and other variants when given as a third booster dose.

Government has decided to use the Covid-19 vaccine of Moderna as booster dose instead of Pfizer jabs.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged the unvaccinated people of the country to take Covid-19 jabs immediately -- to protect lives from the Omicron variant of coronavirus.

Coronavirus loses 90 percent of its ability to infect people within 20 minutes of becoming airborne – with most of the loss occurring within the first five minutes, according to the world’s first simulations of how the virus survives in exhaled air.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday the government has secured enough Covid-19 vaccine doses for all eligible Canadians to receive a booster as well as a fourth dose, according a statement from Trudeau’s office.

Pfizer expects a Covid-19 vaccine targeting the Omicron variant to be ready in March, the company's head said Monday.

While authorities have taken an initiative to inoculate students of Chattogram, health guidelines are barely being followed during the vaccination campaign. Students and their guardians crowded the inoculation centres yesterday, with no social distancing in sight.

The government aims to ensure first dose of Covid-19 vaccine to 75.54 lakh school students (aged above 12) by January 31.

Everything is under control -- still. But the ticking hospital bed occupancy rate from the turn of the year presages a storm ahead, not too dissimilar from the one witnessed about six months ago.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged all to get vaccinated without unnecessary fear to fight off Covid-19 and its new variants.

Health Minister Zahid Malique today said vaccine does not prevent the spread of Covid-19 but it certainly reduces the death rate.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the Covid-19 vaccination was going on in full swing and a mass vaccination drive was launched to inoculate one crore people per month.

Cabinet Secretary Khandker Anwarul Islam today reiterated that without two doses of Covid-19 vaccine, people will not be allowed at restaurants, shopping malls, buses, launches or planes, and that an order in this regard will be issued within a day or two.