PM opens nationwide COVID-19 vaccination campaign
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DHAKA, Jan 27, 2021 (BSS) – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today opened the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination campaign with a nurse and four other government officials being first recipients of the shots as frontline workers.
Kurmitola General Hospital (KGH) nurse Runu Veronica Costa became the first to receive the shot, virtually witnessed by the premier from her Ganabhaban official residence as Covid-19 inoculate consignments started reaching Bangladesh.
“You are not frightened, are you?” Sheikh Hasina said as a medical official prepared to inject her the inoculate at the state-run health facility which was one of the first designated COVID hospitals in the country.