No registration needed for first dose now

Caseloads maintain downward trend

FE Report | Published: February 16, 2022 23:55:50

The daily Covid-19 caseloads maintained downward trend in the country for the last few days with the authorities reporting 15 deaths from the virus on Wednesday.
The daily death toll due to coronavirus was also considerably lower than that of the previous day's 34, according to the official data.
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) recorded 3,929 new Covid-19 cases during the last 24 hours until 8:0am on Wednesday, down from the previous day's 4,746.
However, Covid-19 test positivity rate also inched down further to 12.20 per cent on the day compared to that of 13.77 per cent on the previous day, said a DGHS press release.
Meanwhile reports from agencies add: People will be allowed from now to receive COVID-19 vaccines without registration or any documents from any centre across the country.
People above the age of 12 can now get the COVID-19 vaccine without prior registration until the administration of the first doses ends on Feb 26.
If a citizen does not have a national ID card, birth registration certificate or passport, he or she can visit any immunisation centre and get the vaccine through line listing by providing their mobile phone number only, the Directorate General of Health Services said in a bulletin on Wednesday.
People have been taking the vaccine after registering for the shot on the Surokkha platform using their NID, birth certificate or passport details since the immunisation programme started in February 2021.
Md Shamsul Haque, a member of the directorate's vaccine deployment committee, said in the bulletin that vaccine recipients will be given a card for the next doses after getting their first dose without registration. The directorate has already sent the cards to the centres.
The government is aiming to inoculate 120 million people out of 133 million aged above 12 years, Shamsul said. This means 70 per cent of the population will be vaccinated against the coronavirus under the government's plan.
To achieve the target, the authorities have planned a mass vaccination drive to administer 10 million first doses on Feb 26.
Shamsul said they will set up three centres in each union and deploy five additional teams to every Upazila, and 20 additional teams to each district for the district-level centres.
Twenty-four to 60 additional teams will be deployed to the city corporations.
They will work as mobile teams and provide services where the crowds will get big.
According to the DGHS, nearly 101.2 million citizens took the first dose until Tuesday. Out of these people, around 72.9 million received the second dose as well. The government also administered around 30 million third or booster doses.
Meanwhile, our correspondent continues, total fatalities from coronavirus stood at 28,887 since the virus was first detected in the country in March last, the DGHS data showed.
According to the DGHS figures, a total of 32,207 samples were tested while some 31,877 samples were collected across the country during the last 24-hour reporing time.
A total of 12,757 people recovered from the Covid-19 during the mentioned period, said a DGHS press release.
The rate of recovery from the disease also maintained an uptrend at 89.24 per cent on the day.
However, the rate of fatalities from coronavirus remained static at 1.50 per cent.
Over 1.92 million Covid-19 cases have been detected in Bangladesh and more than 1.716 million of them recovered from the deadly disease.
About 13.10 million samples have also been tested across the country since March 2020, the DGHS figures showed.