Children below 12 to get Covid vaccine if WHO recommends: Health Minister
The government will inoculate children below 12 if the World Health Organization makes the recommendation, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said today.
He came up with the statement while addressing journalists on the upcoming special first dose Covid-19 vaccine campaign countrywide on Saturday.
"They (primary school students) will also come to school. As teachers and other staffers have already been inoculated, there will be no problem," Zahid Maleque said at Bangladesh College of Physicians and Surgeons in Dhaka.
There will be 16,000 vaccine centers in rural areas and 8,500 centers in the urban areas where more than 70,000 vaccinators and volunteers will work during the one-day special campaign, the minister informed.
No one will require any document or prior registration to take vaccines on that day.
Urging the unvaccinated people to take vaccines, he said, "The campaign has been undertaken to bring 70 percent of the population under vaccine coverage…after this, the activities to give second and the booster dose will be strengthened."
So far, the government has inoculated around 60 percent of total population, aged 12 and above, with the first jab of Covid vaccines.
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