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Second dose of COVID-19 vaccine begins April 8
DHAKA, April 5, 2021 (BSS) – The government will start administering the second dose of COVID-19 vaccine from Thursday (April 8) as the countrywide vaccination campaign was launched on February 7.
“Those who have received the first dose of Covid-19 vaccine will start receiving SMS for the second dose from today,” Spokesperson of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Prof Dr Md Nazmul Islam told BSS tonight.
Simultaneously, the government will continue administering the first dose of the vaccine and those who have registered will also receive confirmation SMS, he added.
Referring to a meeting on “COVID-19 Vaccine Preparedness and Deployment Core Committee” held yesterday (April 4), Nazmul said, “The authorities of DGHS decided to begin the second dose of COVID-19 vaccine on April 8.”
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