Syed Shemul Parvez :
The government on Sunday announced that it has approved the rapid antibody testing procedure for Covid-19.
“I have given the permission to launch the antibody testing procedure. It will be started now,” Health Minister Zahid Maleque said it to the media from the meeting room of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare at the Secretariat in Dhaka.
Earlier, National Technical Advisory Committee (NATC) in Covid-19 urged the government to start antibody tests to assess the effectiveness of the incoming vaccines.
“The procedure will help the government to asses the overall situation of the pandemic to make decision about mass vaccination, opening school-colleges and such others,” Professor Dr. Nazrul Islam, former Vice-Chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) told The New Nation on Sunday.
On January 21, the Indian government sent two million doses of Covid-19 vaccine as a gift to Bangladesh, while as many as 30 million doses bought from Serum Institute of India (SII) are expected to arrive in phases.
The arrived vaccines have already created a lot of curiosity about the possible side effects in the minds of the country’s common people.
Medicine expert Dr. ABM Abdullah, however, urged the countrymen not to be panicked about the side effects of coronavirus vaccine.
Dr Mohammad Mustaq Hossain, Advisor and a former chief Scientific Officer at the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), said the vaccines are being given to duty doctors in the first phase and their results would build public confidence.
Meanwhile, the Oxford study found that the vaccines which they discovered did not cause any complications.
Like other vaccines, the area may be slightly swollen, mild pain in body, light fever, itching, headache, nausea and others minor cases. This later will be healed automatically! The remedies are also possible in general treatment, said the doctor.
Medicine specialist Dr. ABM Adullah also said that the Oxford vaccine has absolutely no side effects. Although there is comparatively less complications.
If immediate side effects are occurred, there will be arrangements for treatment. Besides, if doctors are taking the vaccine at an early stage, they would be monitored, Dr. Abdullah added.
IEDCR adviser Mustaq Hossain also aded that health workers are getting vaccinated first as it is also urgent for many of them. Surely it will reassure people confidence gradually, he added.
The government on Sunday announced that it has approved the rapid antibody testing procedure for Covid-19.
“I have given the permission to launch the antibody testing procedure. It will be started now,” Health Minister Zahid Maleque said it to the media from the meeting room of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare at the Secretariat in Dhaka.
Earlier, National Technical Advisory Committee (NATC) in Covid-19 urged the government to start antibody tests to assess the effectiveness of the incoming vaccines.
“The procedure will help the government to asses the overall situation of the pandemic to make decision about mass vaccination, opening school-colleges and such others,” Professor Dr. Nazrul Islam, former Vice-Chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) told The New Nation on Sunday.
On January 21, the Indian government sent two million doses of Covid-19 vaccine as a gift to Bangladesh, while as many as 30 million doses bought from Serum Institute of India (SII) are expected to arrive in phases.
The arrived vaccines have already created a lot of curiosity about the possible side effects in the minds of the country’s common people.
Medicine expert Dr. ABM Abdullah, however, urged the countrymen not to be panicked about the side effects of coronavirus vaccine.
Dr Mohammad Mustaq Hossain, Advisor and a former chief Scientific Officer at the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), said the vaccines are being given to duty doctors in the first phase and their results would build public confidence.
Meanwhile, the Oxford study found that the vaccines which they discovered did not cause any complications.
Like other vaccines, the area may be slightly swollen, mild pain in body, light fever, itching, headache, nausea and others minor cases. This later will be healed automatically! The remedies are also possible in general treatment, said the doctor.
Medicine specialist Dr. ABM Adullah also said that the Oxford vaccine has absolutely no side effects. Although there is comparatively less complications.
If immediate side effects are occurred, there will be arrangements for treatment. Besides, if doctors are taking the vaccine at an early stage, they would be monitored, Dr. Abdullah added.
IEDCR adviser Mustaq Hossain also aded that health workers are getting vaccinated first as it is also urgent for many of them. Surely it will reassure people confidence gradually, he added.
