Walk-in Covid vaccines for children above 12: Health minister
Children aged 12 or above will get walk-in Covid vaccines in the country from now on without showing any ID card, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said.
Those aged 12 or above, who have not been vaccinated yet, will be able to get the vaccine at an inoculation centre, the minister added.
He was speaking at an event at Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital on Monday.
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The minister said, "So far we have given more than 17 crore vaccine doses. Of these, more than 10 crore people received the first dose. We have administered 10 crore doses of vaccines, but many have not been vaccinated yet," Zahid Maleque said.
For this reason, people over the age of 12, even if they do not have a national identity card or birth registration certificate, will get the vaccine with their name, age and mobile number, he added.
The health minister opened 120 dialysis beds at Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital, Mugda Medical College and Hospital, Sir Salimullah Medical College and Hospital and Kurmitola General Hospital during the programme.
He also inaugurated an oxygen generator plant at Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital, with a capacity of producing 532 litres of medical oxygen per minute.
Daily Covid deaths, cases decline further
Bangladesh reported 19 more deaths from Covid-19 and 4,692 new cases in the last 24 hours till 8am Monday with a drop in the positivity rate.
The positivity rate dropped to 13.53% against 14.85% the previous day after 34,689 samples were tested across the country.
On Sunday, twenty-eight deaths and 4,838 cases were reported.
The latest figures took the country's death toll to 28,838 and the case tally to 19,14,356.
Also, 13,237 Covid patients recovered during the same period with the recovery rate recorded at 88.38%.
