Staff Correspondent: Dhaka, Sept-07,
The government on
Tuesday started administering the 2nd
doses of Covid-19 vaccine under its mass vaccination campaign.
According to the
sources, the vaccination campaign will continue
for three days in all cities from September 7-9 while one day outside
the cities on September 7.
In the city areas, the
people who received the first doses on August 7 and 8 will be given the second
doses on September 7, while those who got the first doses on August 9 and 10
will receive the second doses on September 8 and the people who received the
first doses on August 11 and 12 will be given the second doses on September 9.
Outside the cities, the
people who received the first doses on August 7 will be given the second doses
on September 7(today).
The people will have to
take the second doses in the same centre where they got the first doses.
Bangladesh on August 7
kicked off another phase of its mass vaccination drive aimed at inoculating 35
lakh people in six days.
Covid situation in
Bangladesh
Bangladesh logged 65
Covid-19 deaths and 2,710 cases in 24 hours till Monday morning, showing a
slight fall in fatality and uptrend in cases from a day before.
The country reported 70
Covid-related deaths and 2,430 cases on Sunday.
The daily case
positivity rate also increased slightly to 9.82% from Sunday's 9.66%, according
to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
The fresh numbers
pushed the country’s total fatalities to 26,628 while the cases reached
15,17,166, the DGHS said.
The new cases were
detected after testing 27,595 samples during the 24-hour period.
Besides, the recovery
rate rose to 95.91%, while the case fatality also increased to 1.76 per cent
compared to the corresponding period.
The country last saw 67
Coronavirus-related deaths on June 17 and the upswing in the fatalities reached
its peak on August 5 and 10 when 264 deaths were recorded.
However, the situation
was much more catastrophic than June in the latter part of August as the
country experienced a surge of Covid-related caseloads and deaths during that
time.
Between May and June
this year, there was a 273% rise in monthly caseloads and 162% in fatalities.
In July, there was a 150% increase in caseloads and a 170% rise in deaths
compared to the previous month, according to the World Health Organization
(WHO).
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