Floating communities to be vaccinated with Moderna: DGHS

Floating communities across Bangladesh will be inoculated with Moderna vaccine, said DGHS authorities.

Dr Md Shamsul Haque, MNC&AH line director of DGHS disclosed the information to the press on Saturday afternoon. 

According to DGHS, almost 285,000 of the 600,000 floating people are in Dhaka. 

On vaccinating this particular demographic, health Zahid Maleque last week said they will receive single-shot vaccines. “These people’s addresses elude us. That’s why we made the arrangement for vaccinating them with single-dose. 

Hence, the special vaccination drive for floating people will be conducted with Moderna vaccine.

DGHS officials also said that starting off on Sunday. students of Qawmi madrasa will be vaccinated with Pfize vaccine.