Desk Report
Publish: 26 Sep 2021, 04:05 pm
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Twenty-five lakh more doses of Pfizer vaccine under COVAX
facility are scheduled to reach Dhaka on Monday.
A cargo flight of National Airlines, carrying the vaccine
doses gifted by the USA, will land at the Hazrat Shahjalal International
Airport around 10:15 PM, said officials at the Health Ministry.
US Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl R Miller and DG of the
Director General of Health Services (DGHS) Dr Abul Bashar Mohammad Khurshid
Alam will be present at the airport to receive the vaccine jabs.
Earlier, Bangladesh received over 1 lakh doses of Pfizer
vaccine in the first phase and 10.03 lakh doses in the second phase from the
US.
With the fresh batch, Bangladesh will receive a total of
36.04 lakh doses of the vaccine.
So far, the country has received 4.94 crore doses of Astra
Zeneca, Sinopharm and Moderna vaccines under COVAX facility. Of these,
2,41,97,598 people got their first dose while 1,60,33,971 the second dose till
September 25, according to the Health Ministry.
Besides, a process to bring 2 crore doses of Sinopharm
vaccine each month is underway.
Apart from this, another process to procure 24 crore doses
of vaccine through the World Health Organization is going on.
Bangladesh started administering the first doses of
Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at three centers in Dhaka to fight off Covid-19 on June
21.
The United States said it is committed to leading the global
response to the Covid-19 pandemic and they will begin this summer the
allocation of 500 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine it is providing to Gavi
for distribution by COVAX to countries around the world.
US President Joe Biden reaffirmed this commitment by announcing
that his country will donate 80 million doses of vaccines to support global
needs.
The US is working with its G7 partners, the EU, COVAX, and
others in a multilateral effort focused on saving lives, ending the pandemic,
and supporting the global economic recovery. (UNB)
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