Bangladesh started the booster dose of COVID 19 vaccination in Dhaka on a limited scale from Tuesday. A few hospitals in Dhaka started administering the Pfizer vaccine jab for people above the age of 60 who had earlier received two doses of the vaccine. People already registered on the Surokha app of the government will get a message for the booster dose vaccination in specified hospitals of Dhaka. The process was started ten days back on Sunday last on an experimental basis which has now been integrated into the Surokha app for a specified group of people.<br />''<br />''Health Secretary Lokman Hossain told the media that the Bangladesh government has already secured purchase or donation of 31-32 crore doses of the COVID 19 vaccine from multiple sources. Out of it, about 15 crore doses have already arrived in Bangladesh.<br />''<br />''<span style="color: #222222;">More than 71.74 million people have received the first dose of the vaccine while 49.57 million people have received both doses of vaccine in the country. Bangladesh reported 373 new cases of the COVID 19 infection and 1 death on Monday. The sample positivity rate was reported to be 2.16 percent which showed a rise compared to the last weekly average. </span><br />