Two aircrafts of the Bangladesh Air Force are about to leave China to bring a consignment of six lakh Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine shots to Bangladesh.
Hualong Yan, minister counsellor and deputy chief of mission at the Chinese embassy in Bangladesh, confirmed the matter in a Facebook post on Sunday.
"Ready to take off. Two aircrafts of Bangladesh Air Force (BAF)," he wrote in the post, along with three photographs of the planes and crew with the vaccine packages on board.
The BAF aircrafts left for China on Saturday night and arrived there early Sunday.
This is the second consignment of vaccine the country is providing Bangladesh as a gift.
On May 12, Bangladesh received half a million of Sinopharm doses, donated by the Chinese government.
Around 500 students from four medical colleges received the jabs on May 25.
Also, Dhaka Medical College and Hospital administered the vaccine shots to over 450 Chinese citizens.
Since the outbreak of the pandemic last year, China and Bangladesh have been supporting and assisting each other in their fight against the pandemic.
China has donated and is donating vaccine doses to 80 developing countries with urgent needs, and has provided support under COVAX for the emergency use of vaccines in developing countries.
China says it will continue to make joint efforts with Bangladesh to make positive contributions to Bangladesh's endeavour of protecting human lives and fight to win the battle against the pandemic, and together to build an even closer community of shared future and health for mankind.
