Our Correspondent :
The Chattogram district authority will start the second phase of inoculation today as 91,200 Sinopharm vaccine doses reached the port city yesterday morning.
Civil Surgeon Dr Sheikh Fazle Rabbi said the vaccination programme would start today at Chattogram Medical College Hospital.
“The vaccine doses reached Chattogram in a specialised transport. They were later stored in the expanded programme on immunisation (EPI) cold storage at the civil surgeon’s office,” he told the media.
Earlier, Chattogram received 80,913 vials (about eight lakh doses) of the AstraZeneca vaccine in two phases. Vaccination started on 7 February.
About 542,274 people have registered to get vaccines and 453,760 have taken the first dose while 348,145 got the second dose. Some 112,715 recipients are still waiting for the second dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
