90 lakh people to get Covid vaccine on Dec 1-7

The government will administer coronavirus vaccines to 90 lakh people in a seven-day special campaign to begin across the country from December 1 to 7.

Shamsul Hoque, member secretary of the vaccine deployment committee of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), came up with the announcement at a press briefing on Wednesday.

The vaccination campaign will be conducted from 15,948 centres across the country, he added.

Earlier on November 22, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said that the government will begin a seven-day campaign for vaccination against coronavirus on the occasion of the Victory Day.

The government has so far vaccinated 14.69 million people with the first dose and over 12 million with the second doses, the minister mentioned on that day.

The government has kicked off the campaign when the country is experiencing a bit respite in both death and infection rate of the virus.

Bangladesh health authorities recorded one more death from coronavirus and 11 new cases in the last 24 hours till Tuesday morning.

With the updated data, the death toll from the virus rose to 29,433 while the caseload stood at 20,36, 567 as of Tuesday.

The daily case positivity rate stood at 0.72 percent down from yesterday’s 0.79 percent.

The mortality rate of the virus remained static at 1.45 percent while the recovery rate reached 97.51 percent.

The country reported its first zero Covid-related death in a single day on November 20 last year, along with 178 infections.

The health department recorded 40 deaths from the virus and 13,251 cases in September.

Bangladesh registered its highest daily caseload of 16,230 on July 28 last year and daily fatalities of 264 on August 10 the same year.

Since the outbreak of the virus in Wuhan province in China in 2019, the health authorities in Bangladesh confirmed the first case on March 8, 2020, and the first death on March 18 of the same year.