Bangladesh gets another 5.5m doses of Sinopharm vaccine


FE Team | Published: September 23, 2021 15:06:22 | Updated: September 23, 2021 18:27:36


Vials of Sinopharm's Covid-19 vaccine seen in this undated Reuters photo

Another 5.5 million doses of China’s Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine have arrived in Bangladesh.

The shipment arrived at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on a Biman Bangladesh flight around 2:00 am on Thursday.

"We received the vaccines and have sent them to cold storage," Dr Md Shamsul Haque, line director at the Directorate General of Health Services, told bdnews24.com.

Bangladesh has received about 30.4 million doses of the Sinopharm vaccine so far, reports bdnews24.com.

The Bangladesh government had agreed to buy 30 million doses of the Chinese vaccine to combat the coronavirus pandemic. The country has also been receiving vaccines under the global vaccine-sharing platform COVAX.

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