News Desk :
Bangladesh on Thursday rolled out a full-fledged Covid-19 vaccination programme for children aged between 5 and 11 years in city corporation areas across the country.
This vaccination programme will continue for the next 14 days, from 9am to 3pm daily, reports UNB.
The government has set a target to vaccinate 2.20 crore children aged
between 5 and 11 years (mostly primary school students) under this programme.
The vaccination programme was officially inaugurated at Nilkhet Government Primary School in the capital around 9am, in the presence of State Minister for Primary and Mass Education Zakir Hossain.
The Pfizer vaccine for children is being administered in 186 centres across 12 city corporations, the State Minister said.
In Dhaka, children will be vaccinated at 21 centres in two city corporation areas.
