Villagers to come under vaccination

Bangladesh government is going to extend its Covid-19 mass vaccination coverage to union levels for bringing villagers under the coverage when the country was counting the highest deaths and infections almost every day.

On Tuesday, Bangladesh logged another new record of highest 258 Covid deaths on Tuesday breaking the previous day’s record 247 deaths amid country-wide continuing ‘strict lockdown’.

The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) in a regular press release also reported that they have detected 14,925 Corona positive cases in last 24-hour span of time till Tuesday 8:00am.

With the latest statistics, the total death toll reached to 19,779 and infections to 11, 94,752 since the country first detected Covid on March 8, 2020 and first death from the viral disease on March 18, 2020.

DGHS said that testing 52, 478 samples in 639 laboratories across the country they have found positivity rate 28.44 per cent.

The country, on Monday also recorded 15,192 positive cases, which was ever highest.

Amid the surge of virus, the health minister Zahid Maleque on Tuesday declared that the government was going to start inoculation from August 7.

To get the vaccine people will need their national identity card, he said after a meeting on containing Covid -19 held at the Secretariat in Dhaka.

Government took the decision when around 5 million people were waiting for getting a text message for their first dose of vaccine from respective vaccination centres confirming their dates for receiving vaccine.

DGHS recorded that so far 12.61 million people have registered for vaccination of them 7.77 million people got first dose and only 4.31 million have received their 2nd dose.

Health experts repeatedly blamed delta variants of Covid and gross violation of health guidelines for the surge of Covid this time.

To combat the surge, Bangladesh imposed ‘strict lockdown’ from Friday but people largely ignored the lockdown.

Bangladesh Police have arrested over 550 people for defying Covid-19 restrictions and health guidelines in Dhaka on Tuesday, on the fifth day two week-long “strict lockdown”.

During this time, mobile courts fined 236 people Tk 4.83 lakh while DMP’s traffic division fined 497 vehicles Tk 11.73 lakh, said a press release.

As huge number of patients rushed to hospitals, health department said that hospital beds were running out fast and they were facing challenge to handle huge patients.

Amid the high demand, another Oxygen Express train carrying 200 metric tonnes of liquid oxygen has embarked on its journey from India to Bangladesh, the Indian High Commission in Dhaka said in a statement.

The first oxygen shipment from India, also organised by Linde Bangladesh, arrived by train on Saturday.

When Bangladesh facing challenge to combat Covid, vector born-fever dengue hit the country hard as record 143 dengue patients were admitted to different hospitals across the country in 24 hours till 8am on Tuesday.

With them, 1,954 patients have been diagnosed with dengue this year and only 51 of them are from outside Dhaka, according to the DGHS.

DGHS release on Covid said that among the deceased, 138 are male and 120 female are patients.

In the past 24 hours, 12,439 patients recovered from the viral disease totaling the recovery to 10,22,414.

In case of the divisions, Dhaka logged the highest death toll of 84 people followed by 50 in Khulna, 61 in Chattogram, 11 in Rangpur, 13 in Barishal, 21 in Rajshahi, 11 in Mymensingh and seven in Sylhet divisions.