Just Earth News | @justearthnews | 16 Jul 2021, 10:06 pm Print
Bangladesh COVID19 WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
Dhaka: Bangladesh, which is fighting another deadly wave of COVID-19 outbreak, is all scheduled to receive a new consignment of 2 million doses of the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine on Saturday.
Member Secretary of the Vaccine Deployment Committee of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Dr Shamsul Haque confirmed the development to Dhaka Tribune.
With this 2 million, Bangladesh will purchase 15 million Sinopharm vaccines from China with a lower price that was set initially. Bangladesh has so far received 3.1 million doses of the Sinopharm vaccine and 1.1 million as a gift from China, reports Dhaka Tribune.
After five days, the daily death toll in the country dropped below 200 on Friday as 187 fatalities were recorded in the last 24 hours. The overall death toll rose to 17,465.
During the same time, another 12,148 people tested positive for the virus, taking the caseload to 10,83,922.
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