<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>Bangladesh will temporarily halt booster shots from tomorrow (March 2) following shortage of vaccines, according to media reports.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Professor Dr Ahmedul Kabir, additional director general (DG) of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), confirmed the development on Wednesday.</div><div><br></div><div>People will be able to get the 3rd and 4th doses again after the vaccines are available.</div><div><br></div><div>The WHO first declared a so-called PHEIC as what was then called the novel coronavirus began to spread outside China on January 30, 2020.</div><div><br></div><div>Though declaring a PHEIC is the internationally agreed mechanism for triggering a global response to such outbreaks, it was only after Tedros described the worsening Covid situation as a pandemic on March 11, 2020, that many countries realised the danger.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>