Home ›› 28 Dec 2021 ›› Front
The government has started administering Covid-19 booster shots to frontliners and people aged 60 and over on a limited scale on Tuesday morning.
From 10:00am, a few hospitals in Dhaka started the administration of the third Covid-19 jab -- the Pfizer vaccine -- as a booster dose, UNB reported, quoting Director of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) and Director of vaccination programme Dr Shamsul Huq.
The hospitals in Dhaka where the campaign is running are Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), Kurmitola General Hospital, Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH), Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery, Shyamoli TB hospital, Kuwait Bangladesh Friendship. Govt. Hospital, and Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital.
The authorities have completed the upgrading of the Surokkha app, the chief of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said on Monday.
“The website will be open for booster shot registration on the same day,” he said.
People eligible for booster dose will have to access the online platform using their vaccination card information and will find a new option for the booster dose, he said.
“They have to wait for the SMS to get an appointment, just like the first and second doses,” said DGHS Director General ABM Khurshid Alam.
Earlier on December 19, the government launched its Covid-19 booster dose campaign on a trial basis in the capital.
On December 13, the cabinet directed the authorities concerned to work on a precise guideline on the Covid booster dose in the country against the backdrop of rapid transmission of the new Omicron variant.
On December 11, the National Technical Advisory Committee on Covid-19 recommended inoculating booster jabs to people aged above 60 and frontliners.
