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1.77 mln doses of Sinopharm vaccine to arrive Dhaka soon
Bangladesh will soon receive another consignment of 1.77 million doses of Sinopharm vaccine.
Dhaka, Aug 11 : Bangladesh will soon receive another consignment of 1.77 million doses of Sinopharm vaccine under COVAX facility.
The consignment will be arriving here by Emirates Airlines flight which departed Beijing at 7:20am (Beijing time) on Wednesday.
The vaccines will arrive Dhaka via Doha, said Hualong Yan, Deputy Chief of Mission at Chinese Embassy in Dhaka.
On Tuesday, Bangladesh received Sinopharm's 1.7 million doses of vaccine under COVAX facility.
Earlier, Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen said Bangladesh will receive another consignment of 34 lakh doses of Sinopharm vaccine this week while 60 lakh doses of Pfizer vaccine in September next week.
Apart from that, he said Bangladesh will also receive 10 lakh doses of AstraZeneca vaccine soon which is likely to come under the COVAX facility, reports UNB.