The nationwide measles-rubella vaccination campaign begins today, Monday, targeting all children aged six months to five years. Professor MD Zahid Raihan, Additional Director General (Administration) at DGHS, said around 18 million children will be vaccinated during the campaign, which will run from April 20 to May 20. According to the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI), […]
She has since been diagnosed with COVID not long after and can no longer work. Grondin said, “It feels like constant punches in the face.” Scientists are still working out why some people infected with COVID develop long-term symptoms, but such syndromes are not new. Other infections, such as Lyme disease, can result in longer-term […]
According to Dr. MD Shamsul Haque, Member Secretary, COVID-19 Vaccine Management, so far 150 million people in Bangladesh have received the first dose of the vaccine, 125 million the second dose and 65 million the booster shot. The Task Force Committee was present on this occasion. DGHS still has 13.3 million doses of the vaccine […]
But with China being America’s largest trading partner and a top customer for many American companies, the two countries are deeply intertwined. “We want China to get Covid right,” Blinken said earlier this month. “This is first and foremost in the interests of the Chinese people, but it is also in the interests of people […]
The daily case test positivity dropped from 0.78 per cent on Wednesday to 0.44 per cent as 3,376 samples were tested during this period. The death rate and recovery rate remained unchanged at 1.45 per cent and 97.53 per cent, respectively. In November, the country reported 10 Covid-linked deaths and 1,345 cases. Bangladesh recorded its […]
The company said that if authorized, children would receive a primary series consisting of two doses of the original Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine and one shot of the Omicron-optimized bivalent vaccine. Bivalent COVID-19 vaccine, targeting parent strain and BA.4/BA.5 omicron subvariants, currently authorized in the United States and the European Union (EU) as a booster dose […]
“Again, it’s not something that we see at this point in time as a threat to stability, or regime change or anything like that,” he said, “how it develops it’s for Xi’s position.” will be important.” China has not approved any foreign COVID vaccines, which have been produced domestically, which some studies have suggested are […]
Dr. Shamsul said, “The program is running in all ward unions, upazilas, municipalities, municipal corporations, medical colleges and district hospitals.” “The seven-day campaign will take place in six working days. The days have been divided into two parts – we will run a campaign on one day and give the vaccine on the second day. […]
National National committee recommends fourth dose for citizens over 60, frontliners staff reporter November 30, 2022 10:13:01 am print news DGHS sources said the National Technical Advisory Committee (NTAC) on COVID-19 has recommended the government to administer the fourth dose to citizens above 60, frontliners and pregnant women. Meanwhile, the government will conduct a week-long […]