Vaccination Kicks Off In Bangladesh, PM Sheikh Hasina Thanks India For 2 Million Doses
Prime Minister Narendra Modi with his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina. (Twitter/@MEAIndia)
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday thanked the government of India for the gift of two million doses of Covid-19 vaccine while virtually inaugurating the mass vaccination drive in the country.
A nurse named Runu Veronica Costa was administered the first vaccine dose in Bangladesh at the Kurmitola General Hospital (KGH) in Dhaka, watched virtually by the Prime Minister. Hasina also watched four others take the jab, before 21 more were vaccinated.
When many countries are waiting to begin vaccinating their citizens against Covid-19, Bangladesh has successfully launched the campaign with its limited resources, Hasina said.
Top health official Prof Nasima Sultana, who was inoculated on Wednesday, said she was feeling very well and had been working as usual at office and home.
The additional director general of the health directorate was one of the 26 people who took the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine shot on the first day of the piloting. I volunteered to take the vaccine, hoping to dispel the misconception about vaccination, she told The Daily Star.
The government conducted the two-day piloting of the vaccine before launching the mass inoculation on February 7.
Officials said none of the 567 people, who volunteered to take the shots, have shown any adverse impacts so far. They would be observed for seven days.
Govt takes multiple measures to tackle COVID-19: Maleque
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DHAKA, Jan 27, 2021 (BSS) – Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque today said the government under the dynamic leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh has taken multiple measures to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We have been successful in containing the deadly virus as the government has taken different effective initiatives promptly,” he told the COVID-19 vaccination campaign at Kurmitola General Hospital in the city.
The much-anticipated inoculation drive began with vaccinating a nurse at first while some 20 to 25 frontline Covid-19 fighters, including physicians, nurses, health workers, members of law enforcement agencies, army and journalists, will be inoculated on the first day.
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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.
Obaidur Masum, Senior Correspondent,
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Published: 28 Jan 2021 01:58 AM BdST
Updated: 28 Jan 2021 03:11 AM BdST Runu Veronica Costa, a nurse of the Kurmitola General Hospital in Dhaka, received the first COVID-19 vaccine shot in Bangladesh as part of the country’s mass immunisation campaign on Wednesday, Jan 27, 2021.
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“Please draw inspiration from us and take the vaccine. Don’t keep room for fear in your mind,” she said after taking the first dose at the inauguration of the inoculation drive at the hospital on Wednesday.