Bangladesh – Vaccination campaigns to resume in Bangladesh after the arrival of 5.6 million doses

Bangladesh has received 5.6 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine from the United States as a gift under the COVAX framework, while the country purchased 2 million doses of the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine from Beijing. The foreign minister, Abul Kalam Abdul Momen, expressed his optimism that the shortage of Covid vaccine would be over soon as Dhaka is expecting steady supplies from different sources. More vaccine doses from the United States are likely to arrive in the coming months. Meanwhile, the health ministry has signed the deal to purchase 15 million doses of Chinese vaccine. Bangladesh July resumed its mass vaccination program against Covid-19 after a hiatus caused by a low supply of vaccine doses.