Eighty lakh people will be vaccinated against Covid-19 on Tuesday under another phase of mass vaccination campaign, marking Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s birthday.
“Another mass vaccination campaign will resume Tuesday. Eighty lakh people will be brought under the vaccination programme on the day on the occasion of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s birthday,” said Health Minister Zahid Maleque on Sunday at a virtual briefing.
The vaccine jabs will be administered from 9 am at 6,000 centres across the country, he said adding that in the first two hours women above 50 years and physically-challenged people will get the jabs on priority basis.
People will be given vaccine shots at the centers to be set up at 4,600 unions and 433 wards of 1054 municipalities and city corporations. “There’ll be three booths at union level, one at municipality level and three at city corporation level centres.”
Those who have got registered for vaccination but failed to get it timely will get priority during this campaign, said the minister.
“So far, we’ve collected 5.52 crore vaccine doses and 4.20 crore people have got vaccines,” he added.
Bangladesh on August 7 kicked off its mass vaccination drive to inoculate 35 lakh people in six days.
Covid-19 in Bangladesh claimed 25 more lives, the lowest in four months, and infected 818 in 24 hours till Saturday morning.
The number of single-day Covid cases was recorded below 1,000 in May 17 last, logging 698 cases.
The new cases were detected after testing 17,818 samples slightly raising the daily case positivity rate to 4.59 percent from Friday’s 4.54 percent, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
Bangladesh saw its highest-ever 16,230 daily Covid cases on July 28.
The new numbers took the country’s total fatalities to 27,393 while the caseload mounted to 1,550,371.
Meanwhile, the fatality rate increased slightly to 1.77 percent from Friday’s 1.76 percent.
On Thursday, the country recorded the lowest Covid deaths of 24 since May 15 when the country saw 22 single-day deaths.
Besides, the recovery rate increased slightly to 97.41 per cent on Friday with the recovery of 965 patients during the 24-hour period.
Source: United Nations of Bangladesh