OP-ED: The way out of this pandemic

Can we realistically hope to vaccinate a major portion of the country by 2022?
The country is at present experiencing the highest number of deaths and infections from the Covid-19 virus since it was first diagnosed in Bangladesh in early 2020.

After the contagion had dipped to an all time low in the first fortnight of March 2021, we were rather complacent and ready to say goodbye to the deadly virus. Virologists and other health specialists in the country were, however, expecting a second spiral of the contagion similar to that in the US, UK, and many other European countries.

When the government had declared a public holiday last year to restrict the movement of people for controlling the spread of the virus, most of our citizens actually went home, to their villages, and were perhaps responsible for carrying the bug to remote areas of the country.