Bangladesh has received  2.70 lakh doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine as donation from the Bulgarian government. The vaccine consignment landed at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport by a cargo flight of the Turkish Airlines on Wednesday. READ: Another batch of 634,920 AstraZeneca doses from Japan to arrive Saturday evening A representative of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) received the vaccine consignment. This indicates the joint efforts to combat the Covid-19 pandemic, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. READ: Bangladesh to get 2.70 lakh AstraZeneca does from Bulgaria

Britain on Monday took another giant step in the fight against COVID-19, ramping up its immunization program by giving the first shots in the world from the vaccine created by Oxford University and pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca.