Bangladesh received a total of 45 lakh doses of Moderna and Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines between last night and this morning.

The second consignment of Moderna vaccine containing 13 lakh doses reached Bangladesh around 8:40am on Saturday while the first 12 lakh doses had arrived around 11:22 last night.

In total, 25 lakh doses of Moderna Covid-19 vaccine have reached Bangladesh. These vaccine doses are part of US Government’s recent allocation of 25 million vaccine doses for countries in Asia.

Besides, 10 lakh more doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine arrived at the Dhaka airport around 5:30am. Same amount of the same vaccine arrived earlier today.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen on Friday night received the first of the two consignments of Moderna and Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines.

Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Malik, US Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl Miller, Senior Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen, Senior Secretary of Health Services Division Lokman Hossain Miah, and other high officials of Bangladesh Government were also present.  

Besides, Bangladesh Government received the first batch of 2 million Sinopharm vaccine doses purchased from China by Bangladesh Government.

BDST: 1211 HRS, JUL 03, 2021
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