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Covid-19 jabs: Special drive to continue today

24 February 2022, 18:00 PM
UPDATED 25 February 2022, 01:56 AM
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Packed like sardines, people wait in front of Savar’s Institute of Health Management to be vaccinated against Covid-19 yesterday. People in Savar, a garment factory hub, are thronging vaccination centres after the government recently decided to close administration of the first dose from Sunday.

The health directorate will continue its special campaign on the weekend today to administer the first doses of Covid-19 vaccines before the programme ends tomorrow.

The decision was taken considering the heavy rush in countrywide vaccination centres, said Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) yesterday.

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On February 15, the DGHS announced the special drive to vaccinate one crore people by February 26.

Prof Meerjady Sabrina Flora, additional director general (planning and development), DGHS, said, "We want to achieve the target of inoculating 70 percent population with the first dose."

On Saturday, the DGHS arranged around 24,500 makeshift vaccination centres across the country.

Meanwhile, the Covid death toll exceeded 29,000-mark with 10 deaths yesterday.
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