The fourth batch of AstraZeneca Vaccine has been dispatched from Japan on Friday.
A flight of All Nippon Airways (ANA), carrying an amount of 7,81,440 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine, departed from the Narita airport at 21:43 and is scheduled to reach Dhaka on Saturday by a flight of Cathay Pacific, foreign ministry officials said.
With this shipment, the total amount of dispatched vaccines from Japan stands at over 2.4 million.
The fourth batch is a part of Japan’s commitment of supplying over 3.0 million doses of vaccine under WHO-COVAX mechanism.
Shahabuddin Ahmed, Ambassador of Bangladesh to Japan has seen off the consignment at the airport.
The Counsellor (Labour) Md. Zakir Hossain and Arif Mohammad, First Secretary (Political) from the Embassy were also present during vaccine dispatch at the Narita Airport.
