The first consignment of five million doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine purchased by Bangladesh from the Serum Institute of India Pvt Limited will arrive on Monday, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said Sunday.

The UK has mobilised $1 billion from global donors to support vulnerable countries access Covid-19 vaccines to stop the virus’ spread amid competition among countries to get the vaccine first.

The year of 2020 supposed to be a busy year for cricket in Bangladesh, but it has ended as a barren one due to the novel coronavirus which was detected first in the country in March this year.

Global COVID-19 cases have surpassed 80 million since they were first reported a year ago, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.