Special vaccine drive begins tomorrow
The government will launch a countrywide special campaign up to ward level tomorrow to inoculate around three crore people with Covid-19 vaccines.
"We have planned to continue the special campaign initially throughJanuary," Prof Abul Bashar Mohammad Khurshid Alam, director general of the Directorate General of Health Services, told The Daily Star yesterday.
The development comes at a time when the transmission of novel coronavirus is on the rise and seven cases of Omicron variant has been logged.
Earlier in the day, Dr Shamsul Haque, line director of DGHS and also the head of the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI), said the campaign will be held in each EPI centre across the country.
The government on December 28 introduced booster doses of Covid-19 vaccine in the country.
It has so far inoculated 29.15 percent of the country's population against the target of 80 percent.
SEVEN MORE DIE
Yesterday, the DGHS reported seven more deaths from Covid-19 in 24 hours preceding 8:00am, up from one the previous day.
With this, the total number of Covid deaths in the country rose to 28,070. The death rate stands at 1.77 percent.
At least 509 new infections were recorded during the 24-hour period, taking the total number of confirmed coronavirus cases to 15,85,027, said a DGHS press release.
Against a total of 22,667 tests, the positivity rate was 2.25 percent. The overall positivity rate stood at 13.82 percent.
At least 395 Covid patients recovered during the same period. With this, the total number of recoveries reached 15,48,811 and the recovery rate was 97.72 percent.
Of the seven dead, four were males and three females. One of them was aged between 41 and 50, and two each were between 51 and 60, between 61 and 70, and between 71 and 80, added the release.
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