State Minister for Culture KM Khalid takes 2nd dose of Covid-19 vaccine

State Minister for Cultural Affairs KM Khalid received the second dose of Covid-19 vaccine today.

He received the shot around 12:00pm at the vaccination centre in Dhaka Medical College Hospital, said Dr Ashraful Alam, an assistant director of the hospital.

He was under observation for half an hour, he said, adding the state minister took the first dose on January 28.

On January 27, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina launched the vaccination programme from Gono Bhaban when a total of 26 people took vaccine.

The state minister was among 541 people who got the vaccine during the two-day pilot programme of inoculation against Covid-19 at five public hospitals in the capital.