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[2] Cabinet Secretary Khandaker Anwarul Islam disclosed the matter during a briefing after a cabinet meeting held yesterday with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in chair at the Secretariat, reports Jagonews.
[3] The cabinet secretary later said, ” in total, nine crore vaccines are expected to arrive for a total of four and a half crore people in next year.”
[4] “Everyone at the grassroots level are being trained on how to vaccinate,” he said. Training is being given on how to dispose of any infectious item or the cotton that will be used in vaccination. We are also discussing whether the vaccination program can be managed adding the private sector with us”, reports Sara Bangla. [5] He said the corona virus vaccine would be stored at a temperature of minus 18 degrees. It can only be kept in cold storage. The technical committee will look into it, reports Banglanews24.
[6] On March 8, health authorities in Bangladesh reported the first three cases of Covid-19, a severe acute respiratory illness caused by a new coronavirus strain which was later named Sars-CoV-2.
[7] The novel coronavirus broke out in China’s Wuhan city in late December last year and quickly spread throughout the world, becoming a pandemic in less than three months.
The fast spreading coronavirus has claimed 1,700,961 lives and infected 77,234,607 people across the world till Monday afternoon, according to Worldometer.
As many as 54,142,748 people have recovered from Covid-19 which has spread to 218 countries and territories across the planet.