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Dhaka to receive 7.90 lakh AstraZeneca vaccines Saturday

Medicine 2021-10-01, 10:29pm

Bangladesh to receive 7.90 lakh doses of AstraZeneca vaccine from Germany on Saturday.



Dhaka, Oct 01 : Bangladesh will receive 7.90 lakh more  doses of AstraZeneca vaccine from Germany on Saturday.

A cargo flight of Qatar Airlines carrying the vaccine doses will land at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 5 pm on Saturday, said officials at the Health Ministry.

German Ambassador to Bangladesh Achim Troster and Senior Secretary of the Director General of Health Services (DGHS) Lokman Hossain Miah will be present at the airport to receive the vaccine jabs, reports UNB.