Staff Corrspondent: Dhak, Aug-24,
Another 10 lakh doses
of Pfizer vaccine from COVAX facility will reach Bangladesh on August 30, said
Health Minister Zahid Maleque on Tuesday.
The Pfizer vaccine
doses, gifted by the US, are scheduled to arrive at the Hazrat Shahjalal
International Airport around 7:15 PM by a Qatar Airways flight, he said while
talking to reporters at the Secretariat.
Foreign Minister Dr AK
Abdul Momen and US Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl R Miller and the health
minister will be present at the airport to receive the vaccine jabs.
Earlier, the health
minister said Bangladesh will receive 60 lakh more Pfizer jabs from COVAX
facility. Another 50 lakh doses will arrive in Bangladesh in phases by
September, he said.
Bangladesh started
administering the first doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at three centres in
Dhaka to fight off Covid-19 on June 21.
The United States said
it is committed to leading the global response to the Covid-19 pandemic and
they will begin this summer the allocation of 500 million doses of the Pfizer
vaccine it is providing to Gavi for distribution by COVAX to countries around the
world.
US President Joe Biden
reaffirmed this commitment by announcing that the US will donate 80 million
doses of vaccines to support global needs.
The US is working with
its G7 partners, the EU, COVAX, and others in a multilateral effort focused on saving
lives, ending the pandemic, and supporting the global economic recovery.
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