Dhaka February 23, 2025, 8:11 pm
The nationwide vaccination will start after a dry run on 400-500 people in Dhaka
Dr Ahmed Lutfar Mobin, a medical consultant, will become the first physician in the country to get the vaccine dose
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will flag off the much-awaited vaccination programme on Wednesday
The rollout will start with the successful negotiation and execution of supply agreements
The price of each dose of the vaccine, including the cost of transportation, was fixed at $5. The total cost, therefore, is $150 million — about 1,271.55 crore taka
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today thanked her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi for sending the Oxford vaccine produced in India as a gift for Bangladesh
The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained; furniture, wiring, cabins gutted
He came up with the information while receiving Indian gift of Covid-19 vaccine at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Thursday morning
A special flight of India carrying the consignment landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka at 11:20 am
EPI's headquarters, EPI repository at Tejgaon and Cental Medical Store Dept (CMSD) have been prepared to store the vaccines
The Indian government will provide 20 lakh doses of Oxford-Astrazenca Covid-19 vaccines (Covishield) to Bangladesh as ‘gift’ on January 21 instead of January 20
At least 29 people have died in Norway after receiving Pfizer and BioNTech vaccines, 13 suffered a mild facial paralysis in Israel and some people fallen sick in India
Bangladesh, as a priority country to India, will receive the vaccine produced in the country from the “very beginning”
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch the pan India rollout of COVID-19 vaccination drive on Saturday morning through video conferencing
The grant-in-aid restricted use to friendly neighbours will be rolled out soon after the Indian roll-out on January 16
The emergency would last until 1 August, unless cases were brought under control earlier
Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine appeared to be effective against a key mutation in the more infectious variants of the virus discovered in the U.K. and South Africa
“The vaccine may reach the country by January 21-25. we’ll start the vaccination one week after its arrival in the country. That means the vacation will begin across the country in the first week of February,” DGHS DG Prof Ab
The noted journalist breathed his last at Universal Medical College Hospital in the city’s Mohakhali area around 6:05pm
This vital investment will help stop the spread of the disease and prevent future waves, helping to build back better from coronavirus globally