The Covid vaccination kick-started across the country Sunday amid much fanfare with ministers, freedom fighters, bureaucrats and eminent citizens joining the inoculation campaign.

Bangladesh with a population of over 170 million is the seventh most populous country in the world to join the global inoculation campaign against the highly contagious virus that has claimed 2.32 million lives across the globe. The other six countries are China, India, the US, Indonesia, Pakistan and Brazil.

According to the World Health Organisation, 130 countries are yet to join the vaccination programme.

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