The second consignment of Sinopharm vaccine, amounting to some 600,000 doses, arrived here on Sunday afternoon as a gift from the Chinese government. Two C-130J transport aircraft of Bangladesh Air Force brought the consignment with the vaccine doses and some syringes to Bangladesh. The aircraft with 26 crew of BAF and one representative from the Armed Forces Dvision (AFD) had left Dhaka airport on Saturday to transport the Coronavirus vaccine from China. Just nine days after the arrival of the first batch of 500,000 doses of gifted vaccine in Bangladesh, China announced the provision of the second batch of gift to Bangladesh. According to clinical statistics provided by Sinopharm and the evaluation of the World Health Organization (WHO), the efficacy rate of the vaccine is estimated to reach 79%, including all age groups. This fully reflects the great importance China attaches to the friendly relations between the two countries, says China.

China will deliver second consignment of Covid-19 vaccine doses for Bangladesh as a gift of the Chinese government in the second week of June. Hualong Yan, Deputy Chief of Mission at the Chinese Embassy in Dhaka in a Facebook post on Saturday said 600,000 doses of vaccine gifted by the Chinese government are ready for delivery by June 13. Read: Administering of Chinese Covid-19 vaccine to begin on May "It's sincerely hoped that our Bangladeshi brothers and sisters will get the most needed vaccines at earlier date," he said.  Just nine days after the arrival of the first batch of 500,000 doses of gift vaccine in Bangladesh, China announced the provision of the second batch of gift vaccine doses to Bangladesh. China says it fully reflects that China attaches great importance to the friendly relations between the two countries. Read: Bangladesh begins administering 1st dose of Chinese vaccine Just wondering why there is always false information from Bangladeshi side, if media's report is correct.    

Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Monday that China will continue supporting developing countries in their fights against COVID-19 and contribute to making vaccines public goods that are accessible and affordable to all.

China will start inoculating some key groups with COVID-19 vaccines in this winter-spring period, said a National Health Commission (NHC) official in Beijing on Saturday.

China’s annual production capacity for coronavirus vaccines will top 1 billion doses by 2021, following an aggressive government support program for construction of new factories, said a Chinese health official, reports AP.

Four Chinese COVID-19 vaccine candidates have started international phase-3 clinical trials.

The global death toll from Covid-19 reached 772,856 on Tuesday, according to the Centre for System Science and Engineering of  Johns Hopkins University.