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‘Strengthen hands of Sheikh Hasina for materializing dreams of Bangabandhu’
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DHAKA, March 17, 2021 (BSS) – Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque today urged the people of the country to strengthen the hands Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to materialize dreams of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
“Bangabandhu dedicated his life for the well-being of Bangalees… We have got an independent Bangladesh under the courageous and farsighted leadership of Bangabandhu,” he told a discussion at the Bangladesh College of Physicians and Surgeons (BCPS) marking the birth centenary of Bangabandhu here, an official release said.
Maleque said Bangabandhu inspired freedom-loving Bangalee nation to participate in the War of Liberation. Bangladesh emerged as an independent country in the world map through nine-month bloody war, he added.
The government has allowed people aged 40 and above to register for inoculation against Covid-19 as only a fraction of the people eligible for the shots are responding to the campaign. The original plan was to inoculate in the first phase people aged 55 and above along with those belonging to certain groups of professionals. After the new announcement, many aged just over 40
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.