More 15,474 doses of Covid-19 jabs were administered on Saturday raising the number of inoculated vaccines to two crore 97 lakh 34 thousand and 856 doses in Rangpur division.
Health officials said, among the 15,474 doses of the jabs inoculated on Saturday, 438 were administered as the first doses, 2,360 as the second doses and 12,676 as the booster doses.
"Till Saturday, a total of 1,35,56,900 people got the first doses of Covid-19 jabs, and of them, 1,29,88,870 got the second doses and 31,89,086 got the booster doses," Divisional Director (Health) Dr. Abu Md. Zakirul Islam said on Sunday.
Meanwhile, the number of Covid-19 infected patients rose to 64,149 in the division as two fresh positive cases were diagnosed after testing 29 new samples on Saturday.
The two newly infected Covid-19 patients include one each from Rangpur and Dinajpur districts.
The number of healed Covid-19 patients remained steady at 62,785 in the division where no new patients recovered during the last 24 hours ending at 8am on Sunday.
"Besides, the number of casualties remained steady at 1,284 in the division as no new deaths were reported during the last 24 hours," Dr. Islam added.
