Desk Report
Publish: 02 Oct 2021, 08:17 pm
COVAX Facilities in Bangladesh
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Health and Family Welfare
Minister Zahid Maleque has said 20 percent of people will be vaccinated by
December this year under COVAX facilities.
"As per total
population of Bangladesh, we will get COVID-19 vaccines for 40 percent
population of the country under COVAX facilities...WHO Chief Dr Tedros Adhanom
Ghebreyesus agreed to send coronavirus jabs to Bangladesh for our 40 percent
people in phases," he said.
The comments came when the
health minister met with Director General (DG) of the World Health Organization
(WHO) Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in Geneva, Switzerland on October 1, an
official release said today.
During the meeting, the WHO
DG lauded Bangladesh's success to contain the spread of COVID-19 and he assured
that WHO will extend all possible supports to Bangladesh to fight the disease,
Maleque added.
"The WHO will provide
technical support to Bangladesh for manufacturing COVID-19 vaccines," he
said.
Referring to the success of
Bangladesh to inoculate eligible population, the health minister said,
"Bangladesh held a massive vaccination campaign on September 28 to bring
more people under inoculation coverage. On that day (September 28), over 80
lakh people were vaccinated across the country."
According to the health
ministry, the government has decided to purchase 16.5 crore more COVID-19
vaccines from China and other countries to expedite the countrywide vaccination
campaign.
Bangladesh set a target to
vaccinate the country's 80 percent population by 2022 under an accelerated
inoculation campaign, expecting receipt of required COVID-19 jabs within
estimated timeline, it added.
Bangladesh has so far
approved eight COVID-19 vaccines to control the
deadly disease.
The approved COVID-19
vaccines are from Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, CoronaVac, Pfizer,
Covishield, Sputnik V, AstraZeneca and Sinopharm.
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