Govt plans to vaccinate 25 lakh people each month

Government plans to vaccinate 25 lakh people each month with a target to vaccinate 80 percent of the people in the country in phases, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said in his budget speech.

The government has already announced that it will ensure free vaccination for all citizens of the country.

"For this, the government will provide as much fund as required to bear the expenses of procuring the required doses of vaccine. We will make adequate allocation for this purpose in the budget," the minister said in his budget speech.

Mentioning the role of the development partners, the finance minister said, "We are going to receive US$ 1.5 billion as vaccine support to implement the Covid-19 vaccination programme of the government."

The government procured three crore doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from the Serum Institute of India.

In addition, 6.80 crore doses of coronavirus vaccine will be available from the COVAX facility under the World Health Organization for 20 percent of our population, that is, for 3.40 crore people, he said.