Bangladesh will start administering Moderna Covid-19 vaccine doses from Tuesday in 12 city corporation areas, said a press release issued by Directorate General of Health Services.
However, administering Chinese Sinopharm vaccine will be suspended in city corporation areas and continue in district and upazila levels.
Expatriates and the general public can take Moderna jabs in city corporation areas from Tuesday, the release said.
Also, Pfizer vaccine will be administered at seven centres in Dhaka for migrant workers, it said.
Shamsul Haque, director of DGHS vaccine programme said those who took the first dose of AstraZeneca vaccine will have to wait a few more days.
"AstraZeneca vaccine is likely to arrive in Bangladesh by this month or the next," he added.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh on Sunday registered 230 more deaths and 11,874 cases from Covid-19, its highest number of single-day deaths and cases since the pandemic hit the country last year.
The latest figures have pushed the local death toll to 16,419 and the caseload to 10,21,189, the Directorate General of Health Services said in a press release.
