Citizens over 50 years, women and persons with disabilities will get priority in the mass vaccination campaign which will kick off across the country on Saturday (August 7).
Directorate General of Health Services Abul Bashar Mohammad Khurshid Alam came up with the remrk while speaking at a press conference held at BCPS auditorium at capital’s Mohakhali on Friday (August 6).
“People over 25 years will be given the Covid shot. But, citizens over 50 years, women and persons with disabilities will get priority. Besides, people of remote areas will get coronavirus vaccine this time,” Khurshid Alam said.
The country will start a mass immunisation drive on Saturday. The jab will launched at 4 thousand 600 unionparishads, 1 thousand 54 municipalities and 433 wards of 12 city corporations. The health department initially targeted to inoculate 32 lakh citizens.
Union parishad, municipality and city dwellers will be pushed the shot from August 7 to 9 while the drive will start at Rohingya camps on August 10 and continue till August 12.
Sheltered Rohngya people will be given the shot from August 10-12
