A consignment of 7,81,440 doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine arrived in Bangladesh from Japan Saturday afternoon.
A flight of Cathay Pacific Airways, carrying the vaccine shots, reached Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) at 3:24pm.
Group Captain AHM Touhid-ul Ahsan, director of HSIA, confirmed the matter.
The flight left Japan's Narita International Airport Friday.
With this shipment, the total amount of dispatched vaccines from Japan as of Friday stands at over 2.4 million.
This delivery is a part of Japan's commitment to supplying over 3 million doses of vaccine under the WHO-COVAX mechanism.
