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Bangladesh receives nearly 8 lakh AstraZeneca vaccines from Japan 

Staff Correspondent | banglanews24.com
Update: 2021-07-31 16:18:39
Bangladesh receives nearly 8 lakh AstraZeneca vaccines from Japan 

Bangladesh has received nearly 8 lakh doses of AstraZeneca vaccine from Japan this afternoon (July 31) under the Covax scheme this afternoon (July 31).

A flight of Cathay Pacific Airways carrying 781,320 doses of vaccines landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at around 2:50pm.

Foreign Minister Dr A K Abdul Momen and Health Minister Zahid Maleque received the second consignment of Japan-manufactured AstraZeneca vaccines at the airport.

This is part of Japan's announced commitment of supplying over 3 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine in phases to Bangladesh under WHO-COVAX mechanism.

On July 24, Japan sent a consignment of 245,200 Oxford-AstraZeneca doses to Bangladesh under the Covax scheme.

BDST: 1617 HRS, JUL 31, 2021
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