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31,160 administered Covid-19 vaccine on first day of nationwide drive
DHAKA, Feb 7, 2021 (BSS) – A total of 31,160 people were administered Covid-19 vaccines on the first day of countrywide vaccination campaign.
Of them, 23,857 were male and 7,303 female, according to the data of Management Information System of Directorate General of Health Services(DGHS).
The vaccination drive was conducted at 50 hospitals in Dhaka city and 1005 hospitals outside the capital today, the DGHS said, adding the immunization programme will begin at 8am and it will continue till 2.30 pm everyday.
But some hospitals will continue the vaccination programme throughout the day, the health official said.
The inoculation would be administered among people in government hospitals up to upazila level while nearly four lakh people so far got them registered to be inoculated.
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