Bangladesh will start administering Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine doses against Covid-19 from Monday, aiming to fight the pandemic.
Line director of the MNC and AH unit of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Dr Shamsul Haque confirmed the matter in a regular Covid-19 bulletin on Sunday.
"We already received 1,00,620 doses of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine on June 1, which are being preserved. Training sessions over inoculation have also been completed. Therefore, we expect to begin inoculation drive with Pfizer vaccine doses from Monday," he said.
Pfizer shots will be administered at three centres from Monday — Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Kurmitola General Hospital and Sheikh Russel Gastroliver Institute and Hospital.
Bangladesh on Saturday started administering Sinopharm vaccine doses across the country.
The vaccination started in the capital and elsewhere of the country with 11 lakh doses of Sinopharm vaccine gifted by China, said the DGHS.
The vaccine doses are being administered at four hospitals in Dhaka district — Dhaka Medical College and Hospital, Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital, Sir Salimullah Medical College and Hospital, and Mughda Medical College and Hospital.
Health workers and police personnel, students of government and private medical and dental colleges, students of government institutes of nursing and midwifery, residents of dormitories of public universities, officers and employees working in important national projects, expatriate workers, cleaners, those who are engaged in burial and those who were excluded from vaccination earlier and citizens of other countries who are working here will be vaccinated on a priority basis.
