The health workers will be able to use the app from Friday, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said at the launch in Dhaka’s Kurmitola General Hospital on Thursday. For the vaccinators, he said, the app has made the process of verifying vaccine recipients’ information easier. Health workers will now only need to scan the QR code on the vaccine cards of the recipients to verify the information. TWO MILLION DOSES IN FEBRUARYThe Serum Institute of India is supplying 30 million doses of the vaccine developed by the UK’s Oxford University by Anglo-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca, to Bangladesh. Officials said Bangladesh would get five million doses per month from Serum, the largest vaccine manufacturer in the world.

Source: bd News24 February 18, 2021 14:26 UTC