The Bangladesh government has allowed people aged 40 and above to register for inoculation against COVID-19 as only a fraction of the people eligible for the shots are responding to the campaign.

The original plan was to inoculate in the first phase people aged 55 and above along with those belonging to certain groups of professionals. After the new announcement, many aged just over 40 reported that they successfully registered for vaccination.

But some experts said the bar should be further lowered if the authorities wanted to make sure there were no risks of the purchased doses expiring before they could be utilised.

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