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China's gift: Another 1 million doses of Sinopharm Covid vaccine arrive in Bangladesh
The shipment landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on Friday evening
The shipment landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on Friday evening
Another consignment of China's Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine — one million doses this time — has arrived in Bangladesh. This shipment is another gift from China to Bangladesh.
A charter flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the vaccines landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka at 6pm on Friday, reports UNB.
This is the third shipment of Sinopharm vaccine doses that China has sent to Bangladesh as a gift.
The shipment landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on Friday evening
Another consignment of China's Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine — one million doses this time — has arrived in Bangladesh. This shipment is another gift from China to Bangladesh.
A charter flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the vaccines landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka at 6pm on Friday, reports UNB.
This is the third shipment of Sinopharm vaccine doses that China has sent to Bangladesh as a gift.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh is set to sign a memorandum of understanding on coproduction of the Sinopharm vaccine with relevant parties on Monday. The signing ceremony is scheduled to be held at 3pm at the BCPS Auditorium in Mohakhali, Dhaka, according to the Chinese Embassy in Dhaka.
Earlier on Friday afternoon, Hualong Yan, minister counsellor and deputy chief of mission at the Chinese embassy in Dhaka, confirmed the matter on Facebook.
“One million (10 lakhs) China's gift [of] Sinopharm vaccines to our Bangladeshi brothers and sisters have been loaded at Tianjin International Airport,” he said in his social media post.
Another million doses of the Chinese vaccine — a purchased consignment — is scheduled to arrive in Bangladesh on Saturday.
Tahera Khandaker, deputy general manager (public relations) of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, confirmed the information to UNB.
The previous Sinopharm shipments that China sent to Bangladesh as a gift was on 500,000 doses, which arrived on May 12, and 600,000, which arrived on May 21.
The government has also paid China for 15 million doses of the vaccine, of which seven million doses have already been delivered to Bangladesh.
On Wednesday, the Cabinet Committee on Public Procurement approved a proposal regarding the purchase of 60 million doses of Covid vaccine from Sinopharm.
Bangladesh also received 1.1 million doses of the same vaccine under the Covax facility.
The country is currently administering vaccines developed by four companies — AstraZeneca, Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and Sinopharm.
