Another consignment of 50 lakh doses of China’s Sinopharm vaccine arrived in Dhaka in the early hours of Saturday.
“A flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the vaccine doses landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 12:45am. The jabs have been taken to a warehouse of Beximco in Tongi,” said Dr Sazzad Hossain, health official at the airport.
With the fresh consignment, Bangladesh has so far received more than 2.49 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.
