Children aged 5-12 years of age will be brought under the vaccine program, with the government announcing that they will be inoculated with the Pfizer vaccine.
“The inoculation campaign will start soon,” Directorate General of Health Services Additional Director General (Planning and Development) Professor Dr Meerjady Sabrina Flora said on Monday.
They will have to be registered on the Surokkha app with their birth registration cards, she added.
Given the upward trend of Covid-19 cases, she urged everyone to adhere to health guidelines and suggested social distance as many of the Covid-positive patients are now asymptomatic.
In November last year, school students aged 12-17 years received the Pfizer vaccine. A total of 1.73 crore students have received the first dose and 1.60 crore students got two doses.
Covid cases cross 2,000
Health authorities in Bangladesh reported 2,101 fresh Covid-19 cases and two deaths on Monday.
The country’s total death toll now stands at 29,142 while the caseload stands at 19,67,274.
The daily case positivity rate slightly declined to 15.20% from Sunday’s 15.66% as 13,820 samples were tested during the period.
On Sunday, the country recorded 1,680 cases with two deaths from Covid-19.
Of the five deaths reported from June 20 to June 26, some 77.8% received vaccine against Covid-19 while 22.2% did not.
Bangladesh gets another 4M doses of Covid-19 vaccine from US
The United States on Monday, donated another four million ready-to-use doses of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccines to Bangladesh.
This brings the total of US-donated vaccines to over 68 million doses delivered to date.
The doses will help the Bangladesh government expand vaccination and booster campaigns across the country to continue protecting people from Covid-19, said the US Embassy in Dhaka on Monday.
