Covid Vaccine Booster doses to be trialled from tomorrow
Covid-19 booster jabs will be administered on trial basis from tomorrow, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said yesterday.
However, the minister did not mention the time or venue where the booster doses will be administered.
Maleque said this at a Pitha-Puli festival in Manikganj.
The minister said the government decided to administer booster doses to senior citizens aged above 60 and the frontliners -- including doctors, nurses, government officials and journalists -- who got both doses of vaccine six months ago.
He said all activities to administer booster doses are underway. "The prime minister also has given approval to start administering booster jabs."
In this regard, steps to update the "Surokkha" app are in progress. Besides, lists of those who are eligible for booster dose are being prepared, said the minister.
He said seven crore people received the first dose and 4.5 crore people have been fully vaccinated so far in Bangladesh.
There is no shortage of Covid vaccines in the country. Currently, seven lakh doses of Pfizer Covid vaccine are in stock. In all, 4.45 crore doses of vaccine are in stock.
Two crore more doses will arrive next month, the minister added.
On Wednesday, Zahid said at a programme while receiving 80 lakh doses of AstraZeneca vaccine donated by Japan and UK through the Covax facility that the drive to administer Covid booster doses will be in the ensuing seven to 10 days.
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