A total of two crore 21 lakh 17 thousand
and 254 doses of Covid-19 jabs were vaccinated till Wednesday in Rangpur
division where the pandemic situation continues improving in recent weeks.
Health officials said the Covid-19 vaccination campaign continues
smoothly through inoculation of eligible citizens with the first, second and
booster doses of the jabs in the division.
Currently, citizens are being vaccinated with five types of Covid-19
jabs from different companies like Moderna, AstraZeneca, Sinopharm, Pfizer-
BioNTech and Sinovac across the division.
“Among the total inoculated jabs, 1,32,24,443 people got the first dose
and of them, 84,93,817 got the second dose and 3,98,994 got the booster dose
till Wednesday,” said Divisional Director (Health) Dr Abu Md Zakirul Islam.
The first dose recipient 1,32,24,443 citizens include 39,28,912 people
vaccinated with AstraZeneca Covid-19 jabs, 52,19,128 with Sinopharm, 1,31,876
with Moderna, 19,89,138 with Pfizer-BioNTech and 19,89,138 people with
Sinovac Covid-19 jabs.
The second dose recipient 84,93,817 citizens include 20,02,083
inoculated with AstraZeneca Covid-19 jabs, 48,65,182 with Sinopharm, 1,27,554
with Moderna Covid-19 jabs, 14,98,427 with Pfizer- BioNTech Covid-19 and 571
with Sinovac Covid-19 jabs.
“Meanwhile, the 3,98,994 booster dose recipients include 3,86,355
vaccinated with AstraZeneca Covid-19 jabs, 9,549 with Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-
19 jabs and 3,090 with Moderna Covid-19 jabs,” Dr. Islam added.
Source: Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS)