The government is not considering lockdown right now but has directed the health department to intensify awareness campaigns and ensure strict enforcement of health safety rules amid a rise in Covid-19 transmission.
Health officials will have to work to ensure physical distancing and reopen Covid-dedicated hospitals or units and isolation centres that were shut down earlier.
They will also make sure that these hospitals across the country are provided with necessary logistics, including personal protective gears, oxygen supply and medicines.
Besides, screening at all entry points to the country airports, seaports and land ports will be strengthened immediately. If any traveller is diagnosed with Covid, he or she will be put on quarantine.
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The health ministry has started to work on a plan to include university teachers and students in the inoculation campaign to comply with a government decision.
Education Minister Dipu Moni Monday said the universities will reopen in May after vaccinating the teachers and students.
Soon after the announcement, Health Minister Zahid Maleque sat with the officials of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) at his office. In the meeting, we have been instructed to make an inoculation plan for the university students and teachers, Shamsul Haque, member secretary of the National Covid-19 Vaccination Programme, told The Daily Star yesterday.
B desh teachers asked to get vaccine jabs as schools set to reopen
Tue, Feb 09 2021 08:00:37 PM
By Sumi Khan
Dhaka, Feb 9 (IANS): Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the teachers to get their vaccine shots within 7 days, as the country is gearing up to reopen the educational institutions anytime soon, with the nationwide inoculation drive underway.
During the cabinet meeting on Monday, Hasina urged the citizens above 40 to come and get vaccinated.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh has reported eight new Covid-19 fatalities and 387 new cases in the past 24 hours. Of the sample tests, 2.67 per cent have tested positive, while 14.26 per cent cases were detected from the total tests, conducted so far. The toll has climbed to 8,229, according to the latest data by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) of Bangladesh.
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