Parliament Correspondent,
bdnews24.com
Published: 27 Jan 2021 03:55 PM BdST
Updated: 27 Jan 2021 03:59 PM BdST
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has outlined the government s plans for the mass vaccination campaign against the coronavirus in Bangladesh following the arrival of around 7 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from India. );
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Measures have been taken to be vaccinate over 16.9 million people on a priority basis, the prime minister told parliament on Wednesday.
Bangladesh has received a shipment of 2 million vaccines as a gift from India while another consignment of 5 million vaccines bought from Serum Institute of India also arrived in the country on Jan 25.
Hasina will launch the immunisation programme on Wednesday, with a nurse of Kurmitola General Hospital along with 24 others set to receive the first vaccine shots.
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A health worker administers coronavirus vaccine on a person at Kurmitola General Hospital in Dhaka on the first day of vaccination programme on Wednesday. Sourav Lasker
Runu Veronica Costa, a nurse of Kurmitola General Hospital, received the first vaccine in Bangladesh as the country began the vaccination drive against COVID-19 on Wednesday.
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the vaccination drive connecting virtually from her official residence Ganabhaban with the vaccination event at the hospital in the city at about 4:05pm.
‘I am glad that we have succeeded in getting the vaccines and I hope we could protect our people from COVID-19 through vaccination,’ said Hasina as she officially inaugurated the vaccination.