Nationwide mass vaccination: No distancing in overcrowded queues at many centres
Physical distancing, the essential health safety rule to prevent Covid-19 transmission, was largely ignored by thousands of people around the country on the first day of the government's 6-day mass vaccination drive.
Photos and videos sent by our photojournalists and correspondents from several districts show people, waiting to get vaccinated against Covid-19, crowding outside the centres.
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Health experts warn that risks of contracting Covid-19 are higher in crowded spaces where people spend long periods of time together in close proximity. These environments are where the virus appears to spread by respiratory droplets or aerosols more efficiently.
In the Chattogram City Corporation Hospital vaccination centre, security personnel were seen trying to contain the crowd that gathered to receive jabs in the midst of rain, our Chattogram photojournalist reported from the spot.
Hundreds were waiting outside the gate of the establishment holding umbrellas.
At Fulbaria Government Primary School in Savar, hundreds of women were seen jostling in lines, waiting to get jabbed since morning, reports our photojournalist.
Similar situation prevailed at the union and city corporation vaccination centres in Rajshahi too, reports our Rajshahi staff correspondent.
At the centre of Kashiadanga College in Rajshahi's Paba upazila, women and men were seen waiting for hours, standing close to each other in lines.
In Sylhet, vaccine recipients, including elderly and physically challenged people, gathered without maintaining physical distancing outside the office of Ward-1 councilor Toufikul Hadi.
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