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[2] The number of people registering for Covid-19 vaccination through the Surokkha app in Bangladesh crossed 5.36 crore, reports Dhaka Post. The Director General of Health Services (DGHS) made the revelation yesterday.
[3] Bangladesh opened the registration process on January 26 but had to suspend the vaccine registration in early May due to vaccine shortages.
[4] Around 37.2 million people in the country have received their first dose of Covid-19 vaccine. Of them, some 18.45 million have taken both doses, as DGHS data aggregated till Tuesday show.
[5] Bangladesh reported its first three cases of Covid-19, a severe acute respiratory illness caused by a strain of coronavirus later named Sars-CoV-2, on March 8 last year. The first death was reported 10 days later. The fast-spreading coronavirus has so far claimed over 4.88 million lives and infected more than 239.56 million people throughout the world.
, according to Worldometer.
More than 216.91 million people have recovered from the disease, which has affected 223 countries and territories across the planet.