Adequate Covid-19 vaccine doses on the way from multiple sources: Foreign minister

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen today indicated that Bangladesh will soon receive large numbers of Covid-19 vaccine doses from several sources, including under the COVAX facility.

The Bangladesh mission in Geneva has conveyed that the country will receive three million doses of Moderna vaccine under the COVAX facility, Momen said, adding that the shipment is ready.

Bangladesh has already received 2.5 million Moderna vaccines under COVAX, said the minister.

Momen said Bangladesh will receive 2.9 million AstraZeneca vaccine doses from Japan. "This too will come under the COVAX facility."

The foreign minister said he will have a meeting with his Chinese counterpart in Tashkent on July 15 as China will give one million more doses of Sinopharm vaccine as "gift" to Bangladesh. Bangladesh has already received 11 lakh doses of Sinopharm vaccine from China as gift.

The minister said, Bangladesh will receive one million doses of vaccine from the European Union. In August, Bangladesh will receive 6.2 lakh doses of vaccine under COVAX, he added.