DHAKA, Dec 29, 2021 (BSS) - Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid 
Maleque today said the government has set a target to vaccinate four crore 
people from January, 2022.

  "Four crore people will be vaccinated each month.... meaning four crore 
people will receive coronavirus vaccines from next month," he told a meeting 
at Dhaka club here, an official release said. 

   The health minister said the government has also set a target to vaccinate 
people with 28 crore COVID-19 vaccine shots including booster dose. 
Bangladesh has collected 31 crore vaccines, he said, adding, "Among these 
collected vaccines, the country is getting adequate quantity of vaccines 
every month."

   To fulfill the target, the government will expand the nationwide 
vaccination campaign up to ward-level across the country.

   With the first and second dose of coronavirus vaccines, nearly 12 crore 
people of Bangladesh have so far been inoculated, he added. Of them, seven 
crore people received first dose of vaccine while five crore people got the 
second shot of COVID-19 jabs, Maleque added.

  On December 19, 2021, Bangladesh launched the COVID-19 booster shot 
campaign with Pfizer vaccine to scale up its efforts for containing the 
spread of the lethal virus.

  While inaugurating the campaign, the health minister said, "Pfizer vaccine 
will be given as a booster dose....the people, who received any jabs earlier, 
can get Pfizer vaccine as a booster shot."

  Elderly people aged 60 and above, people with comorbidity as well as 
frontliners will be given the booster dose on priority basis, he added.

   "We will not face any scarcity of vaccines. Bangladesh set a target to 
vaccinate 70 percent people by April next year," the health minister said.