Bangladesh needs to bolster Covid-19 vaccination drive, trailing in South Asia: Reports

Dhaka, July 31: Bangladesh is lagging behind the rate at which 40 per cent of the country's population needs to administered both the doses of the Covid-19 vaccines this year. Bangladesh is also far behind in its plan of vaccinating 60 percent of the country's population by 2022, according to the report of a task force comprising the IMF, World Bank, World Health Organization and World Trade Organization to monitor immunization in the developing world.