“Citizens above 30 years old will be able to apply for the vaccine from now on,” he said. Bangladesh opened the registration for vaccines to citizens above 40 years old and frontline workers in the fight against the pandemic on Jan 26. The government rolled out its COVID-19 inoculation drive with Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine on Feb 7. The vaccination drive was halted due to the shortage of doses on Apr 25. It resumed mass vaccination last month by lowering the minimum age to 35 years after it received Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines under the global sharing platform COVAX, and Sinopharm vaccine from China.

Source: bd News24 July 19, 2021 14:46 UTC