Bangladesh receives 30 lakh Sinopharm vaccine jabs

Dhaka
July 30, 2021, 01:10 PM
by UNB NEWS

UNB News
Dhaka
Publish- July 30, 2021, 01:10 PM
UNB NEWS
Update- July 30, 2021, 01:39 PM

Bangladesh receives 30 lakh Sinopharm vaccine jabs

Bangladesh received 30 lakh doses of Sinopharm vaccine on Thursday night and early Friday as part of commercial purchase from China.

One of the three aircraft of Biman Bangladesh Airlines landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 10:20pm on Thursday.

Read: Bangladesh receives 10 lakh Sinopharm vaccine jabs

Two more aircraft landed at 1:14am and 5.37am on Friday, each carrying 10 lakh doses of Sinopharm vaccine, Tahera Khondoker, Deputy General Manager (PR) at Biman Bangladesh Airlines, told UNB.

Earlier, Bangladesh received 20 lakh doses of Sinopharm vaccine on July 17 and July 18.

The vaccine doses were provided as part of a commercial agreement with China.

The highly transmissible Delta variant is now sweeping Bangladesh in an alarming way, taking the country’s death toll from the virus to over 20,000.

Read: 30 lakh doses of Sinopharm vaccine to reach Dhaka Thursday night, Friday

With all eyes on containing the pandemic, Bangladesh is now gearing up efforts to vaccinate its 166,303,498 population, with jabs being collected from various sources.

The country has also reimposed its Covid-19 lockdown for another two weeks until August 5 in an effort to stop the fast-spreading new variant of the virus.