COVID-19 vaccine to arrive in Bangladesh on Jan 21 to 25

ZOOMBANGLA DESK: The first shipment of COVID-19 vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca will reach Dhaka in between January 21 and 25, BSS reports.

“We have taken vaccine distribution plans ahead of arrival of COVID-19 vaccine in the country,” Director General of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Prof Dr Abul Bashar Mohammad Khurshid Alam told a press briefing here.

Under the agreement, Bangladesh government will get three crore COVID-19 vaccine doses from the Serum Institute of India, according to the DGHS.

On December 13, the agreement was signed for collecting three crore COVID-19 vaccine doses developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca.

On November 5, a tripartite Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed for collecting these three crore COVID-19 vaccine doses from the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca. The MoU was signed among the Bangladesh Government, Beximco Pharmaceuticals Ltd (BPL) and the Serum Institute of India (SII).