<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>More 61,694 children aged 5-11 years were vaccinated with the first doses of Covid-19 jabs in Rangpur division on Thursday.</b></span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">"A total of 5,913 children aged 5-11 years were also administered with the second doses of Covid-19 jabs on Thursday," Acting Divisional Director (Health) Dr Md Habibur Rahman said today.</div><div style="text-align: justify; ">&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">So far, a total of 16,99,696 students aged 5-11 years of 4759 primary level educational institutions have been administered with the first doses, and among them, 34,048 with the second doses of Covid-19 jabs in the division.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Meanwhile, the number of administered Covid-19 jabs rose to three crore 46 lakh 38 thousand and 695 with the inoculation of a total of 71,678 doses of the jabs as the first, second and booster doses on Thursday.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Till Thursday, a total of 1,53,78,052 people got the first doses of Covid-19 jabs, and of them, 1,32,96,750 got the second doses and 59,63,893 as the booster doses," Dr. Rahman said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The number of Covid-19 patients remained steady at 64,948 as no fresh Covid- 19 cases were diagnosed after testing 16 new samples on Thursday in the division.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The number of recovered Covid-19 patients remained steady at 63,621 as no more patients healed during the last 24 hours ending at 8 am today.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Besides, the number of casualties also remained steady at 1,293 as no new death was reported from the division during the last 24 hours," Dr. Rahman&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 1rem;">added. BSS</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>