US provides 1.8m Pfizer vaccines

The US has provided another 1.8 million doses of Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine to Bangladesh. The American people have now donated a total of 16.8 million doses of vaccines to Bangladesh with the latest shipment.

The vaccines will help the government continue administering jabs to young people -- aged 12 and up -- and reach its goal of vaccinating 40 percent of the eligible population by the end of 2021.