Second Day of Mass Vaccination Campaign Conducted Successfully

The second day of the nationwide mass vaccination campaign was conducted successfully as the drive was thronged by spontaneous participation of vaccine seeker people.

"We have extended the campaign till tomorrow... the countrywide mass vaccination campaign, that began at 8 am yesterday morning, has set a new record for administering over 1.20 crore people in a single day," Health Minister Zahid Maleque told a function at Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC).

Of the total vaccination doses, 1,11,74,725 people received the first dose of coronavirus vaccines on the first day of the campaign while 8,15,073 received the second dose and 73,855 received the booster dose during the same period, he added.

With yesterday's total doses of vaccine, the government has brought 73 percent of people under vaccination coverage with first, second and booster doses, Maleque added.

Bangladesh has set an impressive success on vaccination coverage as the country has already inoculated 21 crore doses of vaccine, he said adding, "We have been able to control three waves of coronavirus due to multiple initiatives including the expansion of vaccination programme."

"Bangladesh has extended the one-day campaign into the three-day drive to reach fully the unvaccinated people with the first dose... we are receiving an unprecedented response from all levels of people across the country," Director General of Directorate General of Health Service (DGHS) Prof Dr Abul Bashar Mohammad Khurshid Alam told BSS.

"Like the first day of the campaign, all eligible people were thronging designated vaccination centres and booths to receive COVID-19 jabs...we are monitoring the nationwide mass vaccination campaign to make it successful to fight the disease," Alam added.

Earlier, the government set a target to complete the first dose of coronavirus vaccine on February 26, but it (government) decided to continue the campaign till tomorrow, he added.