Bangladesh starts administering Covid-19 booster dose

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Bangladesh on Sunday started administering the Covid-19 booster dose to health workers on trial basis in capital Dhaka to fight off Covid-19. The booster dose was administered at Bangladesh College of Physicians and Surgeons in Mohakhali area of the city in the morning.
Abu Hossain Md Mainul Ahsan, the civil surgeon of Dhaka district, said that the booster dose was initially administered on a low scale as a caution and that it would be rolled out for others after observing the effects of the vaccine for a few days.
Besides, doctors, nurses and health workers will get the dose, while senior citizens will get it in the next phase, keeping their comorbidities in mind, said the civil surgeon.
On December 13, the cabinet directed the authorities concerned, particularly the health minister and the National Technical Advisory Committee on Covid-19, to work on a precise guideline over the campaign of booster dose of Covid-19 vaccine in Bangladesh.