Healthcare workers must stay at workstation till February 10: health directorate DG

All healthcare workers across the country have to stay at workstation until February 10 for Covid-19 vaccination.

None of them will be granted any leave during this period, Prof ABM Khurshid Alam, the director general of the health directorate, said today.

He was briefing journalists this noon following a virtual meeting with all civil surgeons, upazila health officers and directors of the medical colleges.

Vaccination will remain off on government holidays, the DG said.

Some 20,000 people have registered online for vaccination so far, he added.

During the briefing, Prof Meerjady Sabrina Flora, additional director general of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), said some four lakh shots of Covid-19 vaccines have been allocated for Dhaka city.