Vaccines for kids arrive

Bangladesh has received 1.5 million doses of pediatric Pfizer Covid-19 vaccines donated by the United States, report agencies.
This is the first shipment of specially formulated Covid-19 vaccines to protect children between the ages of 5-11 from the coronavirus.
More vacancies are scheduled to arrive in the coming weeks, according to the US Embassy in Dhaka.
USAID is providing support to train health workers to administer these vaccines safely and effectively, enabling the government of Bangladesh to begin rolling out a Covid-19 vaccination campaign for kids ages 5 and older in the coming weeks.
The United States has now donated nearly 74 million doses of Covid vaccines with more on the way.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh recorded 349 daily cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, taking the overall tally of infections to 2,005,257.
The death toll from the disease climbed by three in 24 hours to 29,291, according to the latest government data released on Sunday.
As many as 5,720 samples were tested across the country, for a positivity rate of 6.38 per cent.
Among the eight divisions, Dhaka logged the highest number of cases, with 226 infections.
Another 868 people recovered from the illness nationwide, bringing the total number of recoveries to 1,942,410.
The latest figures put the recovery rate at 96.87 percent and the mortality rate at 1.46 per cent.
Globally, ehe overall number of Covid cases is now nearing 582 million amid a rise in new infections in Southeast Asia.
According to the latest global data, the total case count mounted to 581,804,304 and the death toll reached 6,419,097 on Sunday morning.
The US has recorded 93,069,863 cases so far and 1,055,051 people have died from the virus in the country, the data shows.