Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday directed the authorities concerned to take a separate programme to bring the industrial workers and their family members under the COVID-19 vaccination coverage as soon as possible.
The premier made the directive at the weekly cabinet meeting held at the secretariat. She chaired the meeting joining virtually from Ganabhaban, reports BSS.
Cabinet Secretary Khandker Anwarul Islam briefed the newsmen at the Secretariat about the outcome of the meeting.
“A special discussion was held over the industrial workers (in the meeting) . . . Since Bangladesh would get 60 million more doses of vaccine from Sinopharm as per an agreement signed by the health ministry, the prime minister gave an instruction to vaccinate the workers quickly,” said the cabinet secretary.
Mentioning that the prime minister would herself oversee the matter, Anwarul Islam said, “She (the premier) has given instruction to vaccinate not only the workers but also their family members.”