At the 46 hospitals and centres in Dhaka, over 32,000 people took the jab on Thursday, with Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University administering the highest number of 1,425. The government is administering the Oxford University-AstraZeneca vaccine doses, manufactured by the Serum Institute of India, for free. It has targeted to give the vaccines to total 130 million people, with 3.5 million doses in the first month of the drive. Bangladesh started the mass immunisation drive with seven million doses of the vaccine. The Indian government sent two million doses as gift while Bangladesh imported five million doses under a deal to buy 30 million doses.

Source: bd News24 February 18, 2021 22:07 UTC