A quick response, early drive for vaccines, proper campaign management and mass participation have helped Bangladesh fully vaccinate more than 70% of its population against COVID-19.

Just 10 days after the first COVID-19 patient in Bangladesh was detected on 8 March 2020, the first COVID-19 death in Bangladesh took place.

With the number of infected people in those first two months rising to triple digits, it was difficult to control the infection rate due to population density. As was happening around the world, the Bangladesh government quickly took the drastic decision to lock down towns and cities and adopted the ‘home office’ strategy for most government, government-funded and non-government organs.