Covid vaccine to reach country’s every part by today

The Oxford-AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine will reach across Bangladesh by Monday as the mass vaccination drive will begin on February 7, director general for health services Dr Abul Bashar Mohammed Khurshid Alam said.

He said all the preparations including the arrangement of equipment and booths have been taken in 64 districts for carrying out the vaccination drive.

He was talking to reporters after a programme at the National Institute of Preventive and Social Medicine.

The training of health workers will conclude by Monday. A virtual meeting with the focal persons in upazilas will also be held on Monday. A total of 7,400 health teams have been working to implement the vaccination drive, he said.

On February 4, ‘Surokkha’ app will be available on the play store from where interested people will be able to get registered for the vaccination. The registration process is already underway through the website.

Some 15,000 people have registered by the time. The DGHS volunteers would help those who would fail to get registered through online at the upazila level.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina launched the campaign on January 27 at Kurmitola General Hospital through a videoconference.

Runu Veronica Costa, a senior staff nurse, received the first shot.