Bangladesh will buy each dose of Covid-19 vaccine of the Chinese company Sinopharm at US$10.
The cabinet committee on government purchase on Thursday approved a proposal of the health ministry in this regard.
Sinopharm will supply a total of 15 million doses of vaccines in the upcoming June-August period, five million per month, at a total cost of $150 million.
Bangladesh turned to China and Russia for vaccines after India suspended the supply of agreed amount of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccines from Serum Institute of India.
Serum was supposed to provide a total of 30 million jabs to Bangladesh but as the coronavirus situation deteriorated in India, the company stopped supplying after sending only seven million jabs in two instalments.
Local conglomerate Beximco had been supplying the AstraZeneca’s vaccine to the Bangladesh government at US$5.0 each, after collecting from Serum.