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Health Minister Zahid Maleque has said all the people of the country will get the two doses of vaccines and the booster one against Covid-19 by December as per the target.

The minister came up with the announcement while talking to reporters at the Secretariat on Monday.

Mentioning that Bangladesh has been successful in its vaccination campaign, he said around 10 crore people in the country have been vaccinated so far.

“About 70 per cent of people have been vaccinated. Among them, around 6.75 crore people have received the second doses and 26 lakh people got the booster shots,” he said.

The government is not finding people to vaccinate, he said adding that there are 10 crore vaccines in stock.

The minister said the government has so far spent more than Tk 20,000 crore on vaccinating the people of the country and Bangladesh received a total of 27 crore vaccine doses.

The country will have extra vaccine stocks even after vaccinating all people, the minister said.

Zahid Maleque urged all to get vaccinated as the mortality rate declined among the vaccinated patients.

Currently, about 2,500 Covid patients are undergoing treatment in hospitals across the country, including 1,500 patients, in hospitals in Dhaka, he mentioned.