Inoculation with Pfizer vaccine to start Monday

Inoculation with Pfizer vaccine to start Monday

Administering Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine will start in Dhaka from tomorrow, Dr Md Shamsul Haque, line director at the Directorate General of Health Services, said today.

The vaccine will be administered at three centres in Dhaka -- Sheikh Russel Gastro Liver Institute and Hospital, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University and Kurmitola General Hospital.

A total of 120 people will be administered the vaccine tomorrow at each centre, Dr Haque said while briefing reporters today.

The first consignment of 1.06 lakh doses of the Pfizer vaccine arrived in Bangladesh as part of the global vaccine initiative COVAX on May 31.

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