Around 50 lakh more doses of the Sinopharm vaccine arrived in Dhaka from China in the early hours of Thursday. A regular flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines landed at Shahjalal International Airport with the vaccine consignment around 2am, said Maidul Islam Prodran, senior information officer (Health). Read: Dhaka receives 50 lakh more doses of Sinopharm vaccine Chief Health Coordinator Dr Abu Jaher received the vaccine consignment at the airport, he added. The vaccine doses are, in fact, part of the commercial purchase from China. On September 18, Bangladesh received some 50 lakh doses of the Sinopharm vaccine. Besides, 54 lakh doses of the Chinese Covid vaccine arrived in Bangladesh on September 11. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina recently told Parliament that the government had made arrangements to get more than one crore Covid-19 jabs every month. Read: 54 lakh Sinopharm doses arrive in Dhaka According to the schedule received from the company producing Sinopharm, two crore shots will be available every month from October and six crore from December, she had said. On August 16, Bangladesh, China and Incepta Vaccine Limited signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on the co-production of the Sinopharm vaccine in Bangladesh.

Fifty lakh more doses of Sinopharm vaccine arrived in Dhaka from China early Saturday. A regular flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the vaccine consignment landed  at Shahjalal International Airport at 2am.  Chief Health Coordinator Dr Abu Jaher received the vaccine consignment at the airport. The vaccine doses are part of the commercial purchase from China. Read: Dhaka to receive 30 lakh more Sinopharm jabs this month On September 11, Bangladesh received around 54 lakh doses of the Sinopharm vaccine from China. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina recently told Parliament that the government had made arrangements to get more than one crore Covid-19 jabs every month. According to the schedule received from the company producing Sinopharm, two crore shots will be available every month from October and six crore from December, she added. Read: Second consignment of Sinopharm vaccine arrives On August 16, Bangladesh, China and Incepta Vaccine Limited signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on the co-production of the Sinopharm vaccine in Bangladesh

Fifty-seven lakh more doses of the Sinophamrm vaccine are scheduled to reach Dhaka from China early Saturday. The consignment of vaccine doses is part of the commercial purchase from China, said Deputy Chief of Mission at the Chinese Embassy in Dhaka Hualong Yan. This is so far the second-largest batch of vaccine doses commercially purchased by Bangladesh from China. As a strategic partner of Bangladesh, China will always remain the most reliable supplier whatever and whenever the country needs, Hualong said. With the new doses, China will have supplied over 2 crore doses of Sinophamrm to Bangladesh commercially. Another 2.4 million doses have also been received from China as bilateral assistance.  

A woman has been mistakenly administered two doses of Coronavirus vaccine  at Baliadangi Upazila Health Complex in Thakurgaon, health officials said on Thursday. Fensi Akter, 39, wife of Tajim Uddin of Chhotasingia village in Charol union of the upazila, was admitted to the health complex as she fell sick after being vaccinated twice on Tuesady. Read: Thakurgaon youth jumps rope to enter Guinness Book Fensi Akther said she went to Baliadangi Upazila Health Complex to get the second dose of vaccine after receiving a mobile SMS. The on-duty nurse first injected Fensi with a dose of Sinopharm vaccine. Within a minute, another nurse took another vaccine and pushed it into her arm before she understood anything. Later, the woman was admitted to the health complex when she fell sick. Read: Thakurgaon journalist arrested under DSA gets bail Baliadangi Upazila Health and Family Planning Officer Dr Abul Kashim said vaccine seekers are crowding the booth and they are struggling to handle to crowd every day. "However, the woman is fine now but she is feeling sick due to anxiety over receiving two vaccine jabs," said the doctor.

Around 56 lakh doses of Sinopharm vaccine arrived in Dhaka from China early Tuesday. A Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight carrying 55,93,650 doses of the vaccine landed at Shahjalal International Airport around 2:10 am, said Line Director of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) and Director of vaccination progrmme Dr Shamsul Haq. He said the vaccine doses were procured from China and special arrangements have been made for their preservation. READ: Vaccine sharing: Dhaka wants EU to be more generous China has provided 2.1 million doses of Sinopharm vaccine as a gift to Bangladesh, 3.4 million doses under the COVAX facility, and 8 million doses as part of an arrangement of a large-scale commercial purchase so far. Till now, 13.5 million Sinopharm vaccines have arrived from China. Of them, 1.1 million shots were received under the COVAX facility. Bangladesh is now administering vaccines developed by four companies – AstraZeneca, Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and Sinopharm. READ: Bangladesh to receive 10 lakh Pfizer vaccine jabs on Aug 30: Minister The government has administered at least 26,129,187 doses of Covid vaccines – enough to have vaccinated around 7.8% of the country's population, assuming every person needs two doses. Bangladesh has administered 9,842,979 shots of Sinopharm as the first dose and 1,837,817 as the second dose so far.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday directed the authorities concerned to design a separate programme to bring the industrial workers and their families under the Covid-19 vaccination coverage soon. She also asked to consider whether it would be possible to shorten the existing two-month gap between two vaccine doses. Read:Bangladesh to receive over 6.34 lakh doses of AstraZeneca vaccine from Japan Aug 28 The Prime Minister made the directives while chairing the Cabinet meeting held through a virtual platform, said Cabinet Secretary Khandker Anwarul Islam at a press briefing. Sheikh Hasina joined the meeting from her official residence Ganobhaban and others from the Cabinet Room of the Secretariat. “A special discussion was held over the industrial workers today (in the meeting)…. Since Bangladesh would get six crore doses of vaccine from Sinopharm as per an agreement signed by the Health Ministry, the Prime Minister gave the instruction to vaccinate the workers quickly bringing them under a separate programme,” said the Cabinet Secretary. Besides, the PM said that she would herself oversee the matter. “The Prime Minister has given instruction to vaccinate not only the workers but also their family members as forerunners,” said Anwarul Islam. Read:1st phase of vaccination drive for Rohingyas ends in Cox's Bazar

Bangladesh, China and Incepta Pharmaceutical Ltd on Monday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on coproduction of Sinopharm vaccine in Bangladesh. Health Minister Zahid Maleque and Abdul Muktadir, Chairman, Incepta Vaccine Limited signed the MoU from Dhaka while Li Can, President, China Sinopharm International Corporation and Zhu Jingjin, Vice President, China National Biotec Group Company Limited signed it from Beijing. Incepta, a leading pharmaceutical company in Bangladesh, will bring in bulk and bottling, labeling and finishing of the vaccine will be done locally making the price relatively very cheap. Read: Dhaka to receive 10 lakh Sinopharm vaccine doses shortly Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen and Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming witnessed the signing of the MoU among relevant parties. Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen and Health Secretary Lokman Hossain Miah, among others, spoke.

Bangladesh will sign a memorandum of understanding on coproduction of Sinopharm vaccine with relevant parties on August 16. The signing ceremony will be held at 3pm at BCPS auditorium Mohakhali in the city, said the Chinese Embassy in Dhaka. Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque, Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen and Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming will attend and witness the signing of the MoU. Read: A million more Sinopharm doses land in Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen earlier said a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on coproduction of Sinopharm vaccine in Bangladesh is ready for signing and it should be done without any delay. “We’ve received it (MoU) and it’s with the Health Ministry. It should be done at any moment. I think the Health Ministry should dispose of it very quickly,” he told reporters. Read: US okays Covid booster dose for those with weak immune systems Dr Momen said the government of Bangladesh, Sinopharm and a local company (Incepta Pharmaceuticals Ltd) will sign the agreement. He said Incepta will bring in bulk and bottling, labeling and finishing of the vaccine will be done locally making the price relatively very cheap.

 Bangladesh on Friday received ten lakh (1 million) doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine from China as a gift. This new batch of China-aided vaccine doses arrived just after former batches of 11 lakh gifted Chinese Sinopharm vaccine doses received on May 12 and June 13. Read: Dhaka to receive 10 lakh Sinopharm vaccine doses shortly A chartered flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the consignment arrived at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 6pm. Besides, another Biman flight is scheduled to leave for China on 14 August to bring more doses of the vaccine. Tahera Khandaker, deputy general manager (Public Relations) of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, confirmed the information. Earlier,  17 lakh more doses of Sinopharm reached here as part of the Covax facility. On the other hand, the government on Wednesday approved a proposal to purchase six crores more doses of the Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine from China. Besides, the government previously paid China for 1.5 crore doses of the vaccine, of which 70 lakh doses have already arrived in the country. In fighting against the virus, China and Bangladesh have always been standing together, supporting and assisting each other in times of difficulties and challenges, vividly illustrating the profound friendship between the two countries, said the Chinese Embassy in Dhaka. The pandemic is yet another reminder that the humanity rise and fall together with a shared future, it said. Confronted by a pandemic like COVID-19, the vision of building a global community of health for all, tide over this trying time through solidarity and cooperation must be championed and any attempt to politicize, label or stigmatize the virus be firmly rejected, said the Embassy.

Bangladesh will receive 10 lakh doses of Sinopharm vaccine on Friday evening from the Chinese government as a gift. A Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight is on the way to Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport from Tianjin International Airport in China. Read: 1.77 mln doses of Sinopharm vaccine on way to Dhaka Earlier, Bangladesh received 11 lakh doses of Sinopharm as a gift from China. These 10 lakh doses of Sinopharm vaccine are coming as a gift from China for Bangladeshi brothers and sisters, said Hualong Yan, Deputy Chief of Mission at Chinese Embassy in Dhaka on Friday. Read:1.7mn Sinopharm vaccine doses to arrive soon Bangladesh also received over 34 lakh doses of Sinopharm vaccine under the COVAX facility. Bangladesh is also receiving Sinopharm vaccine doses under a commercial purchase agreement.