Primary and Mass Education State Minister Md Zakir Hossain has said that all the primary school teachers of the country will be vaccinated for Covid-19 within a week.
The minister came up with the information while talking to reporters after taking the vaccine at a clinic building in the secretariat on Tuesday.
Replying to a question, the minister said, “Already Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the Health Ministry to bring the teachers under the vaccination drive. We will try our best to complete their vaccination within the next seven days.”
He also urged teachers and staff of the ministry who are above 40 to come and get vaccinated.
Besides, the minister also requested all to use face masks.
Nationwide vaccination drive
The government rolled out a countrywide mass Covid-19 vaccination drive on Sunday, aiming to end the pandemic.
Health Minister Zahid Maleque inaugurated the nationwide inoculation program through a videoconference from the Health Directorate around 10:30am.
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Health Minister Zahid Maleque received the first shot of the vaccine at Sheikh Russel National Gastroliver Institute & Hospital in the morning.
According to the DGHS, 50 booths have been set up in 50 hospitals in Dhaka while a total of 204 teams of health workers will administer the vaccine.
Situation in Bangladesh
Nine more people died of Covid-19 and 387 others got infected by the deadly virus in Bangladesh in the last 24 hours till 8 am on Tuesday.
With the fresh ones, the death toll from the virus in the country reached 8,205 while the mortality rate stood at 1.52%, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said in a handout.
It said the daily Covid-19 infection rate in the country is now 2.67%, while the new cases pushed up the national tally to 538,765.
Until this morning, 484,573 patients (89.94% of the total reported cases) have recovered. So far, 3,777,242 samples, including 14,468 during the past 24 hours, have been tested.
