Bangladesh is going to receive another 25 lakh doses of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine under COVAX facility on Monday.
A cargo flight of National Airlines, carrying the vaccine doses gifted by the USA, will land at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 10:15 PM, said officials at the Health Ministry.
Earl R Miller, US ambassador to Bangladesh; Abul Bashar Mohammed Khurshid Alam, Director General of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) and other senior officials of the health sector will be present at the airport to receive the vaccine.
With the fresh batch, Bangladesh will receive a total of 36.04 lakh doses of the vaccine.
Bangladesh has already received 1,00,620 doses of Pfizer vaccine in the first phase and 10,03,860 doses in the second phase from the US under the COVAX programme.
So far, the country has received 4.94 crore doses of Astra Zeneca, Sinopharm and Moderna vaccines under COVAX facility.
Of these, 2,41,97,598 people got their first dose while 1,60,33,971 the second dose till September 25, according to the Health Ministry.
Besides, a process to bring 2 crore doses of Sinopharm vaccine each month is underway.
Apart from this, another process to procure 24 crore doses of vaccine through the World Health Organisation is going on.
