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Ministers, university teachers receive COVID-19 vaccines
DHAKA, Feb 7, 2021 (BSS) – Railways Minister Md Nurul Islam Sujan, Textile and Jute Minister Golam Dastagir Gazi, Dhaka University Vice Chancellor Dr Akhtaruzzaman and other teachers, and State Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism Md Mahbub Ali today received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
The Railway Minister received vaccine today at the clinic of National Secretariat while Textile and Jute Minister received the first dose of vaccine with his wife at National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, said separate press releases.
State Minister for Civil Aviation Md Mahbub Ali received the most anticipated Covid-19 vaccine this morning at Mugda Medical College and Hospital in the capital.
“The Prime Minister has been ensuring health security to all the country’s people. Bangladesh has become one of those few countries, who are vaccinating their people and that was only possible because of the dynamic and visionary leadership of PM Sheikh Hasina,” Md Nurul Islam Sujan told journalists after receiving vaccine.
Golam Dastagir Gazi called upon the countrymen to receive the vaccine keeping all the misleading information on vaccine aside and said, “I have received the Covid-19 vaccine and I am not experiencing any kind of side effects”.
DU VC Dr Akhtaruzzaman was vaccinated at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital (BSMMU) this morning following DU Pro-VC (Administration) Dr Mohammad Samad, who received it first among the university teachers.
Dr Mohammad Samad thanked the Prime Minister for tackling the pandemic situation cautiously and said, “The vaccination programme is being arranged in a peaceful and disciplined way and it is being managed in a planned manner. So, I think everyone should take the vaccine ignoring all the misinformation on it.”
DU Pro-VC (Academic) Dr Maksud Kamal and some other teachers also received vaccines at BSMMU on the first day of the nationwide vaccination programme today.
Bangladesh by now received five million doses of expected 30 million doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines manufactured by India’s Serum Institute apart from two more million jabs received as gift from the neighbouring country.
Bangladesh eventually is expected to get 68 million or 6.80 crore vaccines for 20 percent of its population or 3.40 crore people from the WHO, COVAX facility.
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