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Health Minister Zahid Malek has said that no one in Bangladesh will receive the corona vaccine if they are under 18 years of age. He said, “20 percent of our population or about five and a half million people will receive the Kovid-19 vaccine. However, those under 18 will not be vaccinated. Their number is approximately 40 percent of the total population. Nowhere in the world is this age group being vaccinated. They were not even tried.
He made the remarks after inspecting the vaccine lab at the Department of Drug Administration’s National Control Laboratory on Sunday afternoon.
The Health Minister said: “Right now, around a million people live outside the country. As such, at first about five and a half million people will not need the vaccine. However, everyone will be subjected to it in phases.
He added: “So far we have established two laboratories for drugs and vaccines. The drug laboratory is approved by the World Health Organization (WHO). As a result, the drug laboratory is of international standard. In this laboratory, the quality of the drugs from our pharmaceutical companies is tested and what needs to be done to maintain quality is done. The Kovid-19 vaccine will also be tested in this laboratory in the future.
The ceremony was attended by the Director General of the Department of Health, Prof. Abul Bashar Mohammad Khurshid Alam, Director General of the Department of Drug Administration, Major General Mahbubur Rahman and other officials from the National Control Laboratory.
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