PM orders procurement of 3 crore more Covid-19 vaccine doses
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has issued directives for procurement of another three crore doses of the Covid-19 vaccine as the nationwide first round of vaccination campaign was underway.
In case of unavailability of the shots from outside, Bangladesh itself would produce the vaccines, the premier said.
"I have already asked our pharmaceutical companies that can do it [manufacture vaccines] to get prepared while we are seeing whether the vaccines are brought into the country …" she said while addressing a press conference, joining virtually from her Gono Bhaban residence in the capital yesterday.
Bangladesh has so far received 90 lakh vaccine doses as part of a tripartite memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed on November 5 last year and a subsequent agreement on December 13 last year among Bangladesh government, Beximco Pharmaceuticals Ltd and Serum Institute of India.
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