PM orders to speed up vaccination of industrial workers, families

UNB: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina directed the authorities concerned to design a separate programme and bring the industrial workers and their families under the Covid-19 vaccination coverage soon. She also asked to consider whether it would be possible to shorten the existing two-month gap between two vaccine doses. The Prime Minister made the directives while chairing a Cabinet meeting held through a virtual platform today, said Cabinet Secretary Khandker Anwarul Islam at a press briefing. Sheikh Hasina joined the meeting from her official residence Gono Bhaban and others from the Cabinet Room of the Secretariat. "A special discussion was held over the industrial workers today. Since Bangladesh would get six crore doses of vaccine from Sinopharm as per an agreement signed by the Health Ministry, the Prime Minister provided instruction to vaccinate workers quickly, bringing them under a separate programme," said the Cabinet Secretary. Besides, the PM said that she would oversee the matter. "The Prime Minister has instructed to vaccinate not only the workers but also their family members as forerunners," said Anwarul Islam.