Bangladesh to get 10 lakh AstraZeneca vaccines under COVAX by August: health minister
Bangladesh will receive 10 lakh
doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine by August under the global arrangement
COVAX, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said today.
The minister came up with the
information during a press briefing at the Secretariat around noon today,
Maidul Islam, public relations officer at the health ministry, confirmed to To
the media.
"We will get 1,000,000 shots of
Covid-19 vaccine in August from COVAX. We have received a letter in this regard
from the World Health Organization," PRO Maidul quoted the minister as
saying.
The minister did not provide further
details, he said.
Regarding vaccines from Russia and
China, the minister told media that China is yet to respond on the issue and he
hoped they will inform by this month, Maidul added.
"We have completed all the formalities
from our end," Maidul quoted the minister as saying.
Meanwhile, the discussion with
Russia is on, Maleque said.
"They may give their decision
today on when and how many vaccines they will give us," he said.
Replying to a question, he said that
they could not get any update about the vaccines from Serum Institute but talks
are going on.