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PM Outlines COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Plan

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On Wednesday, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina explained who will get the Covid-19 vaccine and how many people will get it on a priority basis.

In response to a tabled question from Awami League MP Ahsanul Islam Titu, she placed the statistics in Parliament in this regard (Tangail-6), reports media.

According to the statistics, all the 452,027 government health workers and 600,000 private health workers (of licensed private entities) who are directly involved in providing Covid-19 health services are potential vaccine recipients.

Among other priority groups, there are 210,000 freedom fighters, 546,620 members of the frontline law enforcement agencies, 360,913 members from the military and civil defense forces, 50,000 officials and employees working in the offices which are indispensable for governing the state, 50,000 frontline media men, 178,298 elected representatives, 150,000 frontline employees of the city corporations and municipalities, 541,000 religious representatives, 75,000 people engaged in funeral works, 400,000 staff engaged in emergency water, gas, sewerage, power, fire service and transport services. 

Besides, 150,000 workers of land, river and airports, 120,000 expatriate unskilled workers, 400,000 government employees engaged in district and Upazila-level emergency public services, 197,621 officials and employees of banks, 625,000 low immunity people (tuberculosis, AIDS and cancer patients), 10,326,658 elderly people from the 64-79 age group, 1,312,973 elderly people from the 80-plus age group, 21,863 players of the national teams (including Football, Cricket and Hockey national teams) and 170,000 people from buffer, emergency and outbreak groups are among the priority recipients.

Bangladesh will receive 6.80 crore doses of vaccine for 20 percent of its population, the Prime Minister said, which means 3.40 crore individuals from the COVAX facility of the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Sheikh Hasina said the list of priority group vaccine recipients was drawn up in the light of the WHO Scientific Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) guidelines and the country's context.

In the first phase of the distribution of vaccines, 1.50 crore people (8.86pc of the population) in Bangladesh will receive two doses of inoculation over a period of two weeks, she added.

The vaccine will be preserved in 64 district EPI stores and 483 EPI stores of the country, said the Prime Minister.

The first consignment of 50 lakh doses of Covishield, the Covid-19 vaccine developed by Oxford-AstraZeneca and manufactured by the Serum Institute of India, was received by Bangladesh on January 25. (SII).

Dhaka received 20 lakh doses of Covid vaccine as the Indian government sent the jabs to Bangladesh as a gift earlier on January 21.

With the January 25 doses, 70 lakh vaccine doses are now in government hands to start the national Covid-19 vaccination.

Through Beximco Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Bangladesh has signed an agreement with the Serum Institute of India (SII) to procure Covishield in three crore doses.

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