Bangladesh to get 270,000 AstraZeneca does from Bulgaria

Bulgaria will donate 270,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to Bangladesh.

The vaccine doses are likely to arrive in Dhaka next week.

Bangladesh will bear the delivery costs of the vaccines.

Earlier, Bulgaria’s caretaker government agreed to donate 172,500 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to Bhutan.

Now it has approved draft agreements on donating 270,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine to Bangladesh, The Sofia Globe reported quoting a government information service statement.

On 1 September, the approval was given to a draft trilateral agreement between Bulgaria, AstraZeneca and Bangladesh, and a draft bilateral agreement between Bulgaria and Bangladesh, the statement said.