The government will start inoculating children aged between 5 to 11 years against Covid-19 in districts and upazilas from October 11.

The government has decided to stop administering the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine by October 3, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said today.

Bharat Biotech’s needle-free intranasal Covid-19 vaccine has been granted approval for emergency use in India, the country’s health minister Mansukh Mandaviya tweeted today (September 6, 2022).

Moderna is suing Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech for patent infringement in the development of the first Covid-19 vaccine approved in the United States, alleging they copied technology that Moderna developed years before the pandemic.

The Covid-19 vaccination campaign for schoolchildren, aged 5-11 years, has started in city corporation areas countrywide today (August 25).

Covid-19 vaccination for children aged between five and 11 started in Chattogram city yesterday, although the programme was supposed to start across the country today.

A total of 300 children aged between 5 and 11 years have received Covid-19 vaccine shots under the “symbolic vaccination programme” in Chattogram city today (August 24, 2022).

All children aged five to 11 will get Covid-19 vaccines during the upcoming inoculation campaign set to start on August 25, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said yesterday.

Sixteen schoolchildren, aged between five and 11, received their first dose of coronavirus vaccines at a programme in the capital yesterday.

A total of 16 school children, aged between 5-11 years, have received the first shot of specially made Covid-19 vaccine at an event in Dhaka today as part of the "trial run" before the main campaign begins from August 25.

The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) will launch the Covid-19 inoculation campaign for children, aged 5-11 years, today.

The United States has provided another 15 lakh doses of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine to help Bangladesh vaccinate children between ages 5-11.

Children aged between 5-11 will get vaccines against Covid-19 on a trial basis on August 11, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said today (August 7, 2022).

Around 5.8 lakh schoolchildren aged 5-11 years were registered for taking the Pfizer’s specially prepared Covid-19 vaccines as of yesterday afternoon.

The second round of the oral vaccination campaign against cholera began yesterday in five selected Dhaka areas.

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is recommending Novavax's (NVAX.O) COVID-19 vaccine carry a warning of two types of heart inflammation, based on a small number of reported cases, an added burden for a shot that has failed to win wide uptake.

Around 7.5 lakh schoolchildren, aged 5-11, in Dhaka city will get Covid-19 vaccine shots first, said Prof Abul Bashar Mohammad Khurshid Alam, director general of the health directorate.

The first consignment of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines developed especially for children has reached the country yesterday, and inoculation of those aged five to 11 might begin next month.

The country today (July 30) received the first consignment of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccines for children.

First and second doses of Covid-19 vaccine will not be available after November, a health official said today (July 26, 2022).