The number of Covid-19 vaccine receivers is increasing day by day in Jhenaidah. The interested people, especially elderly ones of urban areas and surrounding villages, are showing more interest than the rural ones, said the health department officials.
Visiting Covid-19 vaccine centre at Jhenaidah Sadar Hospital on Monday, it was seen that a huge number of people, most of them are women, are receiving Covid-19 vaccines willingly. Most of them came from municipality and surrounding areas, while the number of remote villages people was the least there.
Nandita Rani Biswas, a resident of Kanchannagar of Jhenaidah town, said that she along with her elderly family members rushed the vaccination centre to receive the vaccine free of cost.
Shampa Kahtun of Arappur area in the town said she and her husband received vaccine showing the national identity card (NID) on the spot. Each and every service receiver has to stay for 30 minutes after vaccination, she added.
Civil Surgeon of Jhenaidah Dr Salina Begum said that a total number of 29,563 people have already registered their names to receive Covid-19 vaccine, while 21,297 had already received the service till Sunday.
