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

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

Medicine stores will remain open 24 hours, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said.

A nationwide special campaign will be held tomorrow to inoculate 75 lakh people with the second and booster jabs of Covid-19 vaccines to combat the rising trend of infections, Health Minister Zahid Maleque announced today (July 18, 2022).

Covid-19 vaccination campaign to inoculate children aged between 5 and 12 will begin from June this year, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said yesterday (April 29, 2022).

Health Minister Zahid Maleque today rejected Transparency International Bangladesh’s recent report on Covid-19 treatment, terming it completely “baseless and done on purpose”.

Terming the rise in Omicron infections “alarming”, Health Minister Zahid Maleque today said if this upward trend continues, there will be no space left in the hospitals for patients.

The Medical Degrees (Repeal) Bill 2021 was placed in Parliament today.

Health Minister Zahid Maleque has said the economic situation of the country is good now as the coronavirus situation is under control.

The government will set the fees for private healthcare services, including treatment and pathological cost, health minister Zahid Maleque said today.

The government has spent an average of Tk15,000 for regular Covid-19 patients and Tk 47,000 for Covid-19 patients in ICU beds, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said today.

Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque says that the country is now exactly in the right position to fight against Coronavirus, although there were delays initially in understanding the situation.

Health Minister Zahid Maleque today came under fire from opposition BNP and Jatiya Party MPs in parliament due to the ministry’s failure to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic and ensure treatment and testing facilities for people infected with the coronavirus.

BNP MP Harunur Rashid today in the parliament demanded removal of Health Minister Zahid Maleque and appointment of competent and committed persons in key posts in the health sector to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic in the country.

Health Minister Zahid Maleque says that the readymade garment factories will be operated by strictly maintaining health rules for the sake of people’s lives and livelihoods.

Health Minister Zahid Maleque has fended questions from the press through a video conference and at one stage was asked whether anyone in his ministry is infected with coronavirus or whether he himself was quarantined.

Leaves of all staffers and officials engaged in the health sector have been cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak across the country, Health Minister Zahid Maleque says.

The 312 Bangladeshis returning from the Chinese city of Wuhan can go home on Saturday upon completion of a 14-day quarantine in Ashkona Hajj Camp, Health Minister Zahid Maleque says.

Health Minister Zahid Maleque says there is no need to worry about coronavirus as no one in the country has been detected with the virus yet.

The government is likely to consider imposing a temporary suspension on travelling to and from China in the wake of the deadly Coronavirus outbreak, Health Minister Zahid Maleque says.