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Four crore people to get COVID-19 vaccine by July: Maleque
DHAKA, Mar 3, 2021 (BSS) – Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid
Maleque today said the government is planning to bring four crore people
under COVID-19 vaccination coverage by July this year.
“Bangladesh will get 1.9 crore COVID- 19 vaccines from Covax facility
under the supervision of World Health Organization (WHO),” he told a meeting
on “COVID-19 vaccine” at his ministry, an official release said.
Maleque said a total of 46,36,396 people have so far been registered to
receive COVID-19 vaccines as the vaccination campaign was launched on January
27.
“The number of vaccine receivers is 33,41,505 as the countrywide
vaccination campaign. Of them, 21,50,355 are male and 11,91,150 female,” he
added.
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