The government on Tuesday started administering the second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine under its mass vaccination campaign.
According to the sources, the vaccination campaign will continue for three days in all cities from September 7-9 while one day outside the cities on September 7, reports UNB.
In the city areas, the people who received the first doses on August 7 and 8 will be given the second doses on September 7, while those who got the first doses on August 9 and 10 will receive the second doses on September 8 and the people who received the first doses on August 11 and 12 will be given the second doses on September 9.
Outside the cities, the people who received the first doses on August 7 will be given the second doses on September 7(today).
The people will have to take the second dose in the same centre where they got the first doses.
Bangladesh on August 7 kicked off another phase of its mass vaccination drive aimed at inoculating 35 lakh people in six days.
Covid situation in Bangladesh
Bangladesh logged 65 Covid-19 deaths and 2,710 cases in 24 hours till Monday morning, showing a slight fall in fatality and uptrend in cases from a day before.
The country reported 70 Covid-related deaths and 2,430 cases on Sunday.
The daily case positivity rate also increased slightly to 9.82 per cent from Sunday's 9.66 per cent, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
The fresh numbers pushed the country’s total fatalities to 26,628 while the cases reached 15,17,166, the DGHS said.
The new cases were detected after testing 27,595 samples during the 24-hour period.
Besides, the recovery rate rose to 95.91 per cent, while the case fatality also increased to 1.76 per cent compared to the corresponding period.
The country last saw 67 Coronavirus-related deaths on June 17 and the upswing in the fatalities reached its peak on August 5 and 10 when 264 deaths were recorded.
However, the situation was much more catastrophic than June in the latter part of August as the country experienced a surge of Covid-related caseloads and deaths during that time.
Between May and June this year, there was a 273 per cent rise in monthly caseloads and 162 per cent in fatalities. In July, there was a 150 per cent increase in caseloads and a 170 per cent rise in deaths compared to the previous month, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).