Moudud Ahmmed Sujan

Jahur Ali, a 44-year-old worker at a stone quarry in Tetulia, was utterly clueless about the ongoing Covid-19 vaccination campaign.

As coronavirus transmission has been rising from the second week of this month, the demand for ICU beds in the capital’s hospitals has also increased.

Bulbul Ahmed Kajol heard an explosion near ICU bed-12 at the Covid-19 unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital’s (DMCH) new building around 8:10am yesterday.

The government is not considering lockdown right now but has directed the health department to intensify awareness campaigns and ensure strict enforcement of health safety rules amid a rise in Covid-19 transmission.

Following detection of the UK variant, the South African variant of coronavirus has been detected in Bangladesh, according to global genome-sequencing database GISAID.

The number of patients at the intensive care units in hospitals, getting treatment for Covid-19, has been on the rise.

Dr Farhana Wahab still cannot believe how scary those days were when the coronavirus pandemic hit the country in March last year.

The government is racing against time to achieve the lofty target of inoculating 70 lakh people in the first month of its Covid vaccination campaign.

Bangladesh will get 1.09 crore doses of the Oxford vaccine for free under the Covax facility by May.

The number of people being vaccinated every day has been dropping over the last three days, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) data.

In 1961, five young friends went for physical check-ups to Dhaka Medical College Hospital on a sudden plan. Of them, four were found to have no issues. But the other friend, Mahbub-uz-Zaman, was diagnosed with diabetes.

The health ministry has started to work on a plan to include university teachers and students in the inoculation campaign to comply with a government decision.

Twenty lakh doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from Serum Institute of India reached the country early today, which is less than half of the monthly supply installment as per a contract.

The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine’s first shot starts its effect three weeks after it is administered and remains effective up to three months, according to a latest study.

“Have you brought the vaccination card, sir?” Rubina Akter asks a middle-aged man who just arrived at a Covid-19 inoculation centre at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital.

While the progress in inoculation drives is good in major cities, including divisional headquarters, it is still poor in small towns and rural areas as people there find the online registration process burdensome, divisional health experts said.

Taking advantage of loopholes in online registration process, some people are faking their identities and registering themselves for the Covid-19 vaccine as healthcare professionals.

The health authorities are now thinking about vaccinating more than 35 lakh people in the first month of the mass inoculation against Covid-19.

Saleha Khatun is 55 and suffers from some health issues. She could not register on surokkha.gov.bd to get Covid-19 vaccine as she had lost her National Identity card a long time ago.

Despite a higher percentage of adolescent girls using some form of menstrual products, the hygiene of menstrual practices remains very low among teenagers aged 15-19, revealed the Bangladesh Adolescent Health and Wellbeing Survey (BAHWS) 2019-20. In the survey, 88 percent respondents mentioned they were harassed during commutes.