Plan to vaccinate 15k convicts in jail

Convicts who are 40 years old or older would be vaccinated first.

Once all the convicts aged above 40 are vaccinated, people in jail who have not been convicted of any crime and are 40 or above would get the shots.

Brig Gen Md Mominur Rahman Mamun, inspector general of prisons, revealed the plan.

IG Prisons Brig Gen Mamun said that they are planning to give the shots at the medical centres inside jails bringing in trained nurses.

"If we fail to give vaccine inside the jail, then we would take the registered convicts and inmates to the government listed vaccine centres after corresponding with the civil surgeon and deputy commissioners," he said.

Meanwhile, two jail guards and a jail pharmacist are in isolation as they started showing Covid-19 symptom.

There were 38 people in quarantine in Dhaka Central Jail and five people in Chattogram jail.

Md Mojammel Khan, deputy jailer at the Department of Prisons, said Covid-19 could not affect the jails severely since they kept new arrivals on 14-day quarantine. Besides, meeting relatives has been suspended, he added.