DHAKA, Sept 12 (NNN-BSS) – Bangladesh, yesterday, received a new batch of China’s Sinopharm vaccines, as the country continues to fight the pandemic.
A Biman Bangladesh Airlines plane, carrying the vaccines arrived at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, at around noon yesterday, Md. Shamsul Haque, a senior health ministry official, told journalists.
Bangladesh’s vaccination drive is now running smoothly in the capital Dhaka and elsewhere in the country, thanks largely to China’s continued support for vaccines.
To fight against the alarming spike in COVID-19 cases, Bangladesh signed an agreement on the co-production of the Chinese COVID-19 vaccines, locally.
The Memorandum of Understanding was signed between China’s Sinopharm Group, Bangladesh’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and Incepta Vaccine Ltd., a local vaccine manufacturing company, last month.
Bangladesh began the COVID-19 vaccination drive in Jan, to contain the pandemic that has spread across the country.
Amid uncertainty over the timely arrival of vaccine shipment from India, the government later halted administering the first doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine in the country.
In June, the vaccination drive resumed in parts of the country, with the China-donated Sinopharm vaccines.– NNN-BSS