Sinopharm Vaccination Starts from Tomorrow, Moderna on Tuesday

In order to curb coronavirus infection, the country will start vaccinating Chinese Sinopharm shots on Monday (July 12) and Moderna shots the next day on Tuesday (July 13), according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Dr Shamsul Haque, member secretary of the Covid-19 vaccine deployment committee, said this in a virtual bulletin organized by the DGHS on Sunday (July 11).

He said Chinese Sinopharm vaccines will be given in district and upazila hospitals of the country from tomorrow. And the day after tomorrow, Tuesday (July 13), the Moderna vaccine of Covax will be given in the hospitals of the city corporation.

He added that the sinopharm vaccine will be delivered to vaccination centers across the country by today. And yesterday (Saturday) night, the modern vaccine was delivered to the vaccination centers inside the city corporation. Hopefully, we will be able to start the vaccination campaign across the country from tomorrow (Monday) and the day after tomorrow (Tuesday).

Dr. Shamsul said the Covid-19 vaccination program was launched nationally on February 7 in the country. But there was a shortage of vaccines. But the country has started vaccination again. In the meantime, vaccines of Moderna and Pfizer have arrived in the country under UN's Covax facility and Sinopharm vaccine under the agreement to buy shots from China.

On July 2 and 3, 4.5 million doses of Moderna and Sinopharm vaccines arrived in the country on four flights from the United States and China.