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83.7pc of targeted people get Covid jabs in Rangpur


By BSS
Published : 13 Dec 2022 06:54 PM

The government has so far administered the first doses of Covid-19 jabs to 83.68 percent of the targeted 1,86,63,612 people since the beginning of the vaccination campaign in Rangpur division.

"A total of 1,56,21,029 persons have already got the first doses of Covid-19 jabs, and among them, 1,34,18,508 people or 71.90 percent against the targeted people got the second doses," Acting Divisional Director (Health) Dr. Md. Habibur Rahman said.

At the same time, 66,3,880 persons have already been vaccinated with the booster doses of Covid-19 jabs in all eight districts of the division where the campaign continues smoothly.

Meanwhile, more 13,406 doses of Covid-19 jabs were administered on Monday as the first, second and booster doses, raising the total number of vaccinated jabs to three crore 56 lakh 76,417 thousand and 227 doses in the division.

"Among the administered Covid-19 jabs on Monday, 1,343 were inoculated as the first, 1,1668 as the second and 10,895 jabs as the booster doses," Dr. Rahman said.

Meanwhile, the total number of Covid-19 patients remained steady at 64,953 as no fresh Covid-19 cases were diagnosed after testing 60 new samples on Monday.

The number of recovered Covid-19 patients remained steady at 63,659 no more patients healed during the last 24 hours ending at 8 am today in the division.

"Besides, the number of casualties also remained steady at 1,293 as no new death was reported during the last 24 hours," Dr. Rahman said.