Individual willing to take vaccine registration untill February 5
Prime Minister’s Principal Secretary Ahmed Kaikaus has said that the individuals interested to receive Covid-19 vaccine, ‘COVISHIELD,’ must complete the registration of their names and national identity numbers by February 5.
It was confirmed by Prime Minister’s assistant press secretary MM Imrul Kayes on Sunday.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina launched the Covid-19 vaccination campaign being connected to online with Kurmitola General Hospital in Dhaka on Wednesday afternoon. The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine invented by the Serum Institute of India was injected to 27 individuals on the first day. Runu Veronica Costa, a senior staff nurse of Kurmitola General Hospital, received the first COVID vaccine shot in Bangladesh as part of the country’s mass immunisation campaign. Runu is the in-charge of Dialysis Unit at Kurmitola General Hospital.
Four individuals who got vaccine later on were Brigadier General M Imran Hamid of Bangladesh Army, Prof Nasima Sultana, additional director general of Health Services, Dr Ahmed Lutful Moben of Kurmitola General Hospital, and Md Didarul Islam, a member of traffic police’s Motijheel unit.
