2m doses of COVID-19 vaccine due today

Manzur H Maswood | Updated at 12:13am on January 21, 2021

Bangladesh is scheduled to get 2 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines from India as a ‘gift’, with the government expecting to get another 5 million...

VIPs won’t take vaccine first: minister

Manzur H Maswood | Updated at 12:02am on January 20, 2021

VIPs won’t take vaccine first: minister

Manzur H Maswood | Updated at 11:31pm on January 19, 2021

Health minister Zahid Maleque on Tuesday said that the government would launch the COVID-19 vaccination campaign with inoculation of health service providers, not of the...

Same price for Bangladesh, India: Maleque

Manzur H Maswood | Updated at 12:01am on January 19, 2021

Health minister Zahid Maleque on Monday said that Bangladesh would get the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine from the Serum Institute of India at the same price...

Globe Biotech seeks approval for vaccine trials

Manzur H Maswood | Updated at 02:11pm on January 17, 2021

Local drugs maker Globe Biotech on Sunday applied to the Bangladesh Medical Research Council for approval to conduct clinical trials of its COVID-19 vaccine named...

Many people concerned over access to vaccine

Manzur H Maswood | Updated at 11:52pm on January 15, 2021

Concern about accessing COVID-19 vaccine grew among teachers, private-sector self-employed people, factory workers, informal sector workers and daily wage earners as the government mass-vaccination plan...

Beximco to sell vaccine for $14 a dose

Manzur H Maswood | Updated at 12:11am on January 15, 2021

Beximco Pharma will buy up to three million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine from the Serum Institute of India at $8 each dose to...

Bangladesh pays 47pc more than India for Oxford vaccine

Manzur H Maswood | Updated at 11:39pm on January 12, 2021

The Bangladesh government has bought the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine from Serum Institute of India at a price 47 per cent higher than that the Indian...

Many elderly, vulnerable people not on priority list for Bangladesh vaccination

Manzur H Maswood | Updated at 11:36pm on January 12, 2021

Many elderly people have been given a relatively low priority in the COVID-19 vaccination plan although they are vulnerable to the novel coronavirus. Elderly people...

COVID-19 vaccination planned from February

Manzur H Maswood | Updated at 04:01pm on January 11, 2021

The Directorate General of Health Services on Monday announced that the country’s vaccination campaign against COVID-19 would begin in the first week of February. The...