Bangladesh to get 45 lakh Covid-19 vaccines within next two days

Bangladesh will get 45 lakh doses of COVID-19 vaccine within next two days, the health ministry sources said tonight.    

The first consignment of 12 lakh Covid-19 Moderna vaccines are scheduled to arrive 11.20 pm tomorrow ( July 2) in Bangladesh  while the second consignment of 13 lakh Moderna vaccines to arrive on July 3.

"A total of 25 Covid-19 Moderna vaccines sent from USA are scheduled to arrive at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on July 2 and 3," Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque today confirmed the arrival of vaccines, an official release said.  

In addition to arrival of Moderna vaccines, Bangladesh will get another 20 lakh Sinopharm vaccine within next two days.

Among the total Sinopharm vaccine, 11 lakh will arrive at 12.30 am tomorrow night while remaining nine lakh will reach Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka day after tomorrow, spokesperson of health ministry told BSS.    

Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque will receive 12 lakh Moderna and 11 lakh Sinopharm vaccines tomorrow night at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.

On June 13, the second consignment of six lakh  Covid-19 Sinopharm vaccine shots arrived in Bangladesh.

On May 12, Bangladesh received a gift of five lakh Sinopharm doses from China, the DGHS sources said.  

On June 29, the Directorate General of Drug Administration (DGDA) approved emergency use of Covid-19 Moderna vaccine in the country.  

The regulator has given Emergency Use Authorization ( EUA) after all necessary examinations by the technical committee, a press release of DGDA said.

Bangladesh has so far approved eight COVID-19 vaccines to control the deadly disease.  These vaccines are Covid-19 vaccine Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, "CoronaVac", manufactured by Sinovac Life Sciences Company Limited, Pfizer mRNA Covid-19 vaccine,  Covishield produced by Serum Institute of India; Sputnik V manufactured by Generium Joint Stock Company of Russia,  AstraZeneca manufactured by Sweden and Sinopharm produced by Beijing Institute of Biological Products Co Ltd of China.

Source: BSS