On the other hand, two million doses of the Sinopharm vaccine, which Bangladesh bought from China, arrived at the Dhaka airport around 5:30am Saturday. Earlier, Bangladesh had received 1.1 million doses of the Sinopharm vaccine from China as a gift on two occasions in May and June. Dhaka had urged Washington DC to send two million doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine immediately after knowing that the US had 60 to 80 million shots in stock. The Health Ministry has been negotiating to purchase 15 million doses of Chinese vaccine and to import five million doses of Sputnik V vaccine from Russia, according to the official sources. On January 21, Bangladesh had received the first Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine consignment as India sent 20 million doses as a gift.

Source: Dhaka Tribune July 03, 2021 07:18 UTC