25 lakh doses of Pfizer vaccine arrive

A total of 25 lakh doses of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine arrived in Dhaka from US on early Tuesday under COVAX facilities.

"Officials of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) and other relevant organizations received the consignment of 25 lakh shots of Pfizer vaccine at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka," Dr Md Shamsul Haque, Line Director of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health under DGHS, told BSS this morning.

The first consignment of 100,620 doses of Covid-19 Pfizer vaccine under COVAX scheme arrived in Bangladesh on May 31, this year while on September 1, Bangladesh got 10 lakh doses of Pfizer vaccine, the DGHS sources said.

The total number of Pfizer vaccine has stood at 36,04,480, it added.

On May 27, the Directorate General of Drug Administration (DGDA) approved emergency use of Pfizer mRNA Covid-19 vaccine in the country.

Till to date, Bangladesh has collected 5,19,29,940 doses of vaccines, the DGHS sources said.

Bangladesh has so far approved eight COVID-19 vaccines to control the deadly disease.

The approved COVID-19 vaccines are from Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, CoronaVac, Pfizer, Covishield, Sputnik V, AstraZeneca and Sinopharm.

Source: BSS