Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday virtually inaugurated the country’s COVID-19 vaccination drive in the capital Dhaka with a nurse getting the first shot.
Four more government officials also received the COVID-19 vaccine at the inaugural programme.
Hasina greeted all the five first vaccine recipients, wishing them good health.
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In her parliament speech earlier in the day, Hasina said the government had taken adequate measures to vaccinate over 16.9 million people on a priority basis.
Bangladesh on January 21, got two million doses vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca from India as a gift.
The country also bought another five million doses of the vaccine from the Serum Institute of India which arrived on January 25.
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