Runu, who vaccinated first, gets first booster dose

Runu Veronica Costa, a senior nurse of Kurmitola General Hospital who had received the first shot of the Covid-19 vaccine in Bangladesh back in January, has taken booster dose.

Health Minister Zahid Maleque inaugurated the campaign for Covid-19 booster doses at Bangladesh College of Physicians and Surgeons in Dhaka's Mohakhali on Sunday.

On the day, Health Minister Zahid Maleque, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen, Law Minister Anisul Huq, Fisheries Minister SM Rezaul Karim, Director General of Health Directorate Prof ABM Khurshid Alam, National Professor Shajla Khatun, a journalist, a police personnel, and chief of Anjuman Mofidul Islam received booster jabs.

People aged 60 and above and the frontliners would be eligible for receiving the booster doses.