Bangladesh to buy 75m doses of Sinopharm vaccine: Momen

Bangladesh is buying a total of 75 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine from China’s Sinopharm. Bangladesh has already made payment for 15 million of those vaccines.

Foreign minister AK Abdul Momen made the disclosure at a press briefing on Thursday.

The minister said 4.4 million vaccines would reach the country under COVAX. Of the vaccines, Bangladesh would receive 3.4 million vaccine next week and remaining 1 million of Oxford AstraZeneca would reach within this month.

Also, 6 million Pfizer vaccines under COVAX initiative would reach the county next month.

Momen also said vaccines brought from different sources other than COVAX would reach in the current month.