Third in gender, last in line for Covid-19 vaccines?: The Daily Star columnist, South Asia News & Top Stories


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DHAKA (THE DAILY STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – Weighed down under the stacks of reports about crowding at Covid-19 vaccination centres, shortage of vaccine doses, and the rocky mass vaccination drives, is the story of how a section of Bangladeshi population is suffering from bias and a lack of access to the jabs, leaving them unprotected against the coronavirus. If this discrimination is not dealt with quickly, then not only will this community continue to suffer, but it will be seen as a grave medical and moral failure of the country as well. The official figure for Bangladesh’s third gender population,...