Mass Inoculation Campaign Not Resuming At This Moment: Health Min

Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque has said that the mass vaccination campaign is not being resumed as there is not enough coronavirus vaccine. However, as soon as enough vaccines are available, mass vaccination activities will resume again.

The minister made the remarks after a function at the BCPS auditorium in Mohakhali on Sunday (August 15).

"We are going to sign an agreement with China to get vaccine," he said. “An agreement on joint vaccine production is expected to be completed next week. Our vaccination agreement with Russia has been completed. We will get another 23 million vaccines from India.”

We have received 54 lakh vaccines this week," the minister said. Another 5 million vaccines will arrive in the last week of this month. In the meantime, our normal vaccination activities will continue.

Regarding the coronavirus infection, Zahid Maleque said that the infection rate in the country has started decreasing. Even in the last month, our infection situation was much worse. The infection rate rose to 32 percent. Now it has come down to 20 percent. However, we are not satisfied with the reduction in infections and deaths, we want an infection rate not high than 5 percent.