1.7m Sinopharm vaccines to arrive Tuesday
Sinopharm's 1.7 million doses of vaccine under COVAX facility will arrive in Dhaka on Tuesday, said Hualong Yan, deputy chief of Mission at the Chinese Embassy in Dhaka, reports news agency UNB.
He said the vaccine doses are scheduled to arrive at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 7.00pm. The flight carrying those vaccines left Beijing at 5.25am (BST).
About vaccine coproduction, Hualong Yan said, "We'll be coming soon for vaccine coproduction."
Earlier, foreign minister AK Abdul Momen said Bangladesh will receive another consignment of 3.4 million doses of Sinopharm vaccine this week while 6 million doses of Pfizer vaccine in September.
Apart from that, he said, Bangladesh will also receive 1 million doses of AstraZeneca soon which is likely to come under the COVAX facility.