Covid inoculation: No more first dose after Feb 26
Citizens eligible to receive Covid-19 vaccines would be able to get their first jabs without any registration or documents in any centre across the country from now on.
The health officials came up with the announcement a day after Prof Abul Bashar Mohammad Khurshid Alam, director general of the health directorate, on Tuesday announced that the yearlong first dose vaccination campaign will be ended through a special campaign on February 26.
"We have already directed all permanent vaccination centres to administer the first dose to everyone who will come without a birth registration certificate or national identity card," Dr Shamsul Haque, member secretary of the National Covid-19 Vaccine Management Taskforce at the DGHS, said in an online briefing yesterday.
Instead of registration, the first dose vaccine recipient with no document or prior registration will be given a vaccine card as proof of taking the vaccine, he said.
He also said that February 26 will be the last date of administering the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.
Starting on January 27 last year, the government has so far inoculated 10.12 crore (87 percent) of the 11.92 crore people, which is 70 percent of the total population.
The government had an initial target to inoculate 80 percent population with Covid-19 vaccines, which was revised last month.
On the last day (February 26) of first dose vaccination, there will be three makeshift vaccine centres in each union and ward in municipality areas, five mobile vaccination teams in each upazila and 20 in each district.
Each of the teams will have a target to inoculate 300 people with their first jabs.
Besides, there will be 30 mobile teams in each city corporation in Dhaka metropolitan while 40 in Narayanganj City Corporation, 60 each in Barishal, Sylhet, Cumilla and Mymensingh city corporations.
Each of the teams will have a target to inoculate 500 people.
At the beginning of the briefing, Dr Nazmul Islam, spokesperson of the DGHS, said that the transmission has been declining very slowly.
Yesterday, the DGHS has reported 15 Covid-19 patients died and 3,929 new cases. The positivity rate was 12.20 percent.
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