The mass vaccination campaign has so far drawn much fewer women than men. Of around 13 lakh people inoculated till Monday, around 33 percent were women and the rest were men. Till yesterday, a total of 18,48,313 people were vaccinated with 614,658 being women. Women also seem to be lagging behind in registration. Till yesterday, 28,63,300 people had registered for
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Published: 11 Feb 2021 08:14 AM BdST
Updated: 11 Feb 2021 08:14 AM BdST
The Securities and Exchange Commission or SEC has organised an investor summit on the potentials of Bangladesh s capital market in Dubai. );
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It held a road-show titled ‘The Rise of Bengal Tiger: Potentials of Bangladesh Capital Markets’ on Tuesday with the aim to reach out to non-resident Bangladeshi investors and attract foreign investment in Bangladesh.
The summit, sponsored by UCB Stock Brokerage Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of United Commercial Bank Limited, will continue at the Creek ballroom of Park Hyatt, Dubai until Friday.
Shibli Rubayat-Ul-Islam, chairman of SEC, chaired the road-show. He highlighted the important role of the capital market in raising long term funds through bond and Sharia-complaint bond or Sukuk to solve the maturity mismatch problem long prevailing in Bangladesh’s banking sector.
The government plans to vaccinate all teachers as it aims to reopen educational institutions, which were closed on March 17 last year to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
It comes when the mass inoculation against Covid-19 has gained momentum with more than one lakh people taking the first shot yesterday, the third day of the nationwide vaccination campaign. We are planning to vaccinate all teachers of all age groups so that the educational institutions can be reopened, Prof ABM Khurshid Alam, the director general of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), told The Daily Star yesterday.
Earlier in the day, State Minister of Primary and Mass Education Md Zakir Hossain said all the teachers of the government primary schools would be administered Covid-19 vaccine within a week, reports UNB.
The government has decided to inoculate 35 lakh people, instead of 60 lakh, against Covid-19 in the first month of vaccination apparently due to a lukewarm response to online registration.
With the mass inoculation scheduled to start on Sunday, around 80,000 frontline workers from different professional groups and people over 55 completed the registration online till yesterday, according to official data.
It is only 2.29 percent of the revised target of 35 lakh doses.
Meanwhile, the country is expected to receive 12.8 million vaccine doses under the Covax programme by mid-2021, according to a statement.
The Covax programme for Covid-19 vaccines published its first distribution list yesterday, planning enough doses for dozens of countries, to immunise more than three percent of their populations by mid-year. It broke down for the first time how the programme s initial 337.2 million doses will be distributed, with first deliveries expected late this month, AFP reported.
As the government is preparing to vaccinate millions of people across the country, likely from February 8, with the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines, many people are indecisive due to fears of possible side effects.
Unlike any other vaccine in history, the Covid-19 vaccines were developed fast, causing people to question its safety.
According to experts, however, the Covid-19 vaccines approved so far are safe, or those would not be approved by the regulatory authorities like the US Food and Drug Administration, European Medicines Agency and the World Health Organization.
The Directorate General of Drug Administration (DGDA) has also issued Emergency Use Authorisation for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on January 4.