File Photo

  MANIKGANJ, Jan 01, 2022 (BSS) - Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid 
Maleque today said all people of the country will be brought under COVID-19 
booster dose campaign.

  "Elderly people aged 60 and above, people with comorbidity as well as 
frontliners will be given the booster dose on priority basis," he told at the 
inaugural function of COVID-19 booster dose campaign at Manikganj Nursing 
Institute here.

   Bangladesh has been lauded globally for successful continuation of the 
coronavirus vaccine drive, Maleque said, adding the government has set a 
target to vaccinate four crore people each month. 

   Like the nationwide COVID-19 mass vaccination campaign, Bangladesh started 
booster dose drive much earlier compared to many countries in the world, he 
added. 

  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.