Desk Report
Publish: 09 Oct 2021, 04:26 pm
AstraZeneca vaccine || Photo: Collected
One
million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine will reach Dhaka from India on Saturday,
Indian High Commission in Dhaka has said.
The
consignment is scheduled to arrive at 17:40 pm on Saturday from the Serum
Institute of India.
This
is a commercial supply against the Beximco order, it said.
Earlier,
the Indian government announced the resumption of Covid vaccine exports from
October amid the improvement of the COVID situation.
The
world's largest vaccine producer had halted exports in April to cater to
domestic demand as infections shot up.
Bangladesh
entered into a deal with the Serum Institute of India (SII) to purchase 30
million doses of a potential vaccine developed by AstraZeneca.
Bangladesh
was supposed to get five million doses of vaccine per month as the SII and
Bangladesh’s Beximco Pharma signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for
priority delivery of the vaccine doses.
Bangladesh
has so far received only 7 million of Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine doses
produced by Serum Institute of India (SII) through its contract.
Bangladesh also received 3.3 million doses of vaccine as a bilateral partnership gift. (UNB)
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