Bangladesh has received another batch of Chinese Covid -19 vaccine doses shipped through the COVAX facility. Bangladesh's Health Ministry officials delivered the same after an aircraft arrived at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka at 7.15 pm. on Tuesday, according to international media reports. This is the first consignment among three scheduled to arrive from China this week, the report added.
Sharing details to media, Shahriar Sazzad, a senior Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said that the next consignment carrying the same amount of Chinese vaccines under the COVAX Facility is scheduled to arrive on Wednesday, August 11.
Bangladesh has already received millions of doses from China as purchased vaccines. In addition, China also sent 1.1 million Sinopharm doses as a gift to Bangladesh in two consignments in July.
Bangladesh started its mass vaccination campaign in February, using the vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and Anglo-Swedish company AstraZeneca. But the programme was subsequently halted after India banned vaccine exports to tackle a growing COVID crisis within its own borders.
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