A consignment of 17 lakh Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine doses under the COVAX campaign departed for Dhaka from Beijing airport at 5:25am (BST) Tuesday.
The consignment is scheduled to arrive in Bangladesh Tuesday evening which Bangladesh is getting as gifts from China under the COVAX programme.
Hualong Yan, Minister Counselor and Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of China in Bangladesh, confirmed the matter in a Facebook post on Tuesday.
"We'll be coming soon for vaccine co-producing," said Hualong.
Earlier, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen on August 5 said the government had ordered 75 million doses of Sinopharm Covid vaccine to purchase while already made the payment of 15 million doses out of it.
Apart from purchasing vaccines, the foreign minister said that Dhaka would receive 34 million doses of Sinopharm vaccine next week and one million more doses of AstraZeneca vaccine later this month under COVAX framework.
Besides, he said, Bangladesh is scheduled to get six million more doses of Pfizer vaccine in the first week of September under the COVAX as well.
