A total of one lakh 85 thousand doses of coronavirus vaccines of Sinopharm and Moderna reached Chattogram at 6:30am Wednesday.
Divisional health director Dr Hasan Shahriar Kabir and Chattogram Civil Surgeon Dr Sheikh Fazle Rabbi received covered fridges containing vaccines saying that these will be preserved in the EPI Stores for maintaining the cold chain until the vaccination drive begins.
Dr Sheikh Fazle Rabbi said a total of 78,400 doses of Sinopharm vaccines for different upazilas and 1,06,800 doses of Moderna vaccines for the port city reached here.
The Moderna vaccine will be given to the people under the city corporation area and the Sinopharm vaccine will be given at the upazila level, he added.
He said the vaccines were kept in the EPI stores of the Civil Surgeon’s Office and the vaccination will be conducted in the same manner as the EPI program.
According to the civil surgeon’s office, vaccination drives will be conducted in the port city under the supervision of the City Corporation and at the upazila level under the supervision of the respective UNO.
