Another consignment of 50 lakh Sinopharm vaccine doses reached Dhaka from China in the early hours of Thursday.
A flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the vaccine doses landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 2:00am, according to a notification issued by the public relations office of the ministry of health and family welfare.
Dr Abu Jaher, chief health coordinator of Directorate General of Health Services, received the consignment at the airport, read the notification.
Earlier on 15 September, Foreign Minister A K Abdul Momen said the country will get 24 crore doses of Covid-19 vaccines by March-April of next year.
With the fresh consignment, Bangladesh has so far received more than 3.44 crore Sinopharm doses.
Meanwhile, the government signed an agreement to purchase three crore doses of the Chinese vaccine. Besides, the country is getting the vaccine doses from COVAX facility.
On August 16, Bangladesh, China and Incepta Vaccine Limited signed a memorandum of understanding on the co-production of the Sinopharm vaccine in Bangladesh.
The country is now inoculating vaccines developed by four companies -- AstraZeneca, Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, and Sinopharm.
