University students to get priority in getting Covid vaccines: HM

Health minister Zahid Maleque said on Monday said that university students would get priority in Covid-19 vaccination as the Bangladesh government had a deal to get 1.5 crore doses of vaccines from China, 50 lakh doses in each month, from June.

He said that the Pfizer vaccines, which arrived on the day, would be given as per registration serial already made for Covid vaccination.

About the stricter restrictions for bordering districts, the health minister said that his ministry wanted immediate implementation of stricter restrictions in bordering districts as infections and deaths from Covid-19 were increasing alarmingly in those areas

 but the Cabinet Division was considering tk 3/4 thousand crore business of mango and litchi growers.

He said that the issues were discussed in the cabinet meeting, held virtually with prime minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair from her official residence Ganabhaban.

Ministers and secretaries concerned also joined the meeting from the secretariat.

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