Nurse Runu gets first booster dose
19 December 2021, 04:09 pm | Updated: 23 November 2024, 08:47 am
Senior nurse of Kurmitola General Hospital Runu Veronica Costa, who had received the first shot of the Covid-19 vaccine in Bangladesh this January, has got the first vaccine as the campaign for Covid-19 booster doses started in Bangladesh.
Health Minister Zahid Maleque inaugurated the vaccination drive at Bangladesh College of Physicians and Surgeons in Dhaka's Mohakhali on Sunday.
Among others, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen, Law Minister Anisul Huq, Fisheries Minister SM Rezaul Karim, Director General of Health Directorate Prof ABM Khurshid Alam, National Professor Shajla Khatun, a journalist, a police personnel, and chief of Anjuman Mofidul Islam have received booster jabs.
Citizens aged 60 and above would be eligible for receiving the booster doses. The frontliners who have received both doses of vaccines at least nine months ago would also be eligible.
Gradually, the programme will be expanded all over the country, he said, without sharing further details.
