Eight million people from across the country will be vaccinated against the Covid-19 on Tuesday through a special campaign marking the birth anniversary of country's prime minister Sheikh Hasina.
Health minister Zahid Maleque came up with this announcement on Sunday noon in a virtual press conference.
The health minister said the special vaccination campaign will start at 9:00am on Tuesday excluding pregnant women and lactating mothers.
The campaign will prioritise those who haven’t received message yet for vaccination even after registering on Surokkha app, he added.
However, in this phase, most of the vaccines to be administered will be of Sinopharm, produced by China.
And only the first dose will be given in this phase in over 6,000 centers simultaneously, set up at union, city corporation and municipal levels.
The minister claimed, so far the country has received 55 million doses. Of them, 40 million have already been inoculated.
Earlier, the government inoculated 4.5 million doses of coronavirus vaccine to the people through mass vaccination programme.