Another consignment of 25 lakh doses of Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine arrived in Bangladesh from the USA under COVAX facilities on Tuesday morning.
A cargo flight of National Airlines, carrying the vaccine doses, landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka from Florida around 5:45am.
Officials of the health sector and US Embassy in Dhaka were present at the airport to receive the consignment.
With the fresh batch, Bangladesh received a total of 36.04 lakh doses of the vaccine.
The first consignment of 100,620 doses of Pfizer vaccine under COVAX scheme arrived in Bangladesh on May 31, while the country got 10 lakh Pfizer doses on September 1.
