Moudud Ahmmed Sujan

The government has allocated four lakh shots of Covid-19 vaccine for Dhaka district, Prof Meerjady Sabrina Flora, additional director general of the health directorate, said yesterday.

Meanwhile, vaccines were yet to be allocated for Narayanganj and Gazipur districts.

The four lakh shots of Covid-19 vaccine are from the 20 lakh doses that were recently gifted by the Indian government.

Except Dhaka, Narayanganj and Gazipur, the government sent 50 lakh vaccine jabs, purchased from Serum Institute of India, to 61 districts by Sunday for the mass inoculation campaign against Covid-19.

As per the government’s plan, 60 lakh people will be inoculated in the first month of vaccination beginning on February 7.

Since the first detection of Covid-19 cases in the country on March 8 last year, Dhaka, Narayanganj and Gazipur became the hotspots of Covid-19 cases.

Two of the first three patients were from Narayanganj city, The Daily Star found in an investigation.

As of yesterday, Dhaka division saw the highest 4,532 Covid-19 deaths (more than 56 percent) out of 8,137 casualties across the country, followed by 1,494 (more than 18 percent) in Chattogram.

Similarly, highest 1,50,629 people tested positive for Covid-19 in Dhaka city, while the number was 6,179 in Dhaka district, according to the IEDCR website information updated until December 15, 2020.

In the same period, 6,694 positive cases were found in Gazipur, says the IEDCR.