Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on Sunday reported vaccinating 55,515 men and 40,160 women with the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in the said period.

Bangladesh launched its nationwide Covid-19 vaccination drive on February 7.

Around 44 lakh people have received the Covid-19 shot from January 27, when some people received the vaccine on a pilot basis, to March 14.  

The government is providing the vaccine for free. It signed an agreement with India's Serum Institute for acquiring 30 million doses of the vaccine.

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The institute will provide 5 million doses every month between January and June.

Those who are 40 or above can register for getting the jab at www.surokkha.gov.bd as the on-spot registration system has been revoked.

Health Minister Zahid Maleque has said the age limit for getting the vaccine would be revised once more doses are available in the country.

Up to now 56,80,643 people have registered on Surokkha app for receiving Covid-19 jab.

The second dose of the vaccine should be taken between eight and 12 weeks of the first one.

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Till March 11, Bangladesh had administered 2.56 doses of the vaccine per 100 people in the country, according to Our World in Data. 

Covid-19 in Bangladesh

Covid-19 claimed 18 more lives and infected 1,159 more in Bangladesh in the last 24 hours until Sunday morning, showing a sharp rise both in the number of deaths and daily infections.

With the latest figures, the Covid-19 fatalities rose to 8,545 and infections to 557,395, according to the DGHS.

The daily infection rate jumped to 7.15% on Sunday from 6.26% on Saturday.

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But the mortality rate remained static at 1.53% on Saturday and Sunday which was 1.54% in the past few weeks.

The virus infection rate had come down to below 5% on January 19 last. It even had come down below 3%. However, the infection rate soared again on Tuesday, jumping to 5.13%.

The country's daily Covid-19 cases stayed below the 1,000-mark before Wednesday when the daily Covid-19 cases rose to 1,018.

However, 1,385 people recovered from the virus infections during the period. So far, 511,695 patients – 91.80 percent – have recovered, according to the DGHS.