The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has called for teachers to be prioritized to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, once frontline health personnel and high-risk populations are vaccinated.

A new analysis projects that further reduction in health services in Bangladesh could cause the death of over 28,000 children under the age of five in the next six months as an indirect result of coronavirus pandemic in the worst case scenario, UNICEF said Wednesday. 

UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore has called on governments and other detaining authorities to urgently release all children who can safely return to their families or an appropriate alternative.