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jabbed -- that makes it 100 percent vaccination,” Fakirhat Upazila Parishad Chairman Swapan Kumar Das said.

Swapan credited the success to several campaigns, including mega vaccination drives, special camps for senior citizens, door-to-door campaigns, and the engagement of public leaders at all levels.

“We need 27 crore vaccine doses. The government has bought 21 crore vaccine shots. Also, it has got 10 crore doses as gifts,” Lokman said.

“We have started administering booster doses to people over 60 years of age and want to fully vaccinate 100 percent of the target population against Covid-19 by March,” Prof Meerjady Sabrina Flora, additional director general of the health directorate, said at the programme.

Bangladesh launched a nationwide vaccination programme on February 7 to immunise 80 percent of the population in three phases.

The country is now administering vaccines developed by five companies -- AstraZeneca, Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, Sinopharm, and Sinovac.

It has administered at least 125,630,679 doses of Covid-19 vaccines so far including 43,004 booster shots.

The country is now recording 361 new infections on average each day, 3 percent of the peak -- the highest daily average reported on August 3.

Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, it has recorded 1,584,811 infections and 28,070 Covid-related deaths, according to the Directorate General of Health Services.