10 lakh doses of Pfizer vaccine will arrive in the country.
A flight of Qatar airways carrying the consignment will land on Shahjalal International Airport Wednesday (September 1), health ministry official confirmed.
“The schedule of 10 lakh Pfizer shots has been changed. The batch was expected to touch the ground at around 7 pm on Monday (August 30) evening. But it will arrive on the same time Wednesday,” ministry of health and family planning official Maidul Islam told media.
Health minister Zahid Maleque, health DG Doctor ABul Bashar Mohammed Khurshid Alam and US ambassador to Dhaka Earl Robert Miller will receive the consignment among others.
The US is gifting the doses to Bangladesh under the Global Alliance for Vaccine and Immunisation (GAVI) of World Health Organisation (WHO) and Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovation (COVAX)
Earlier, Bangladesh received another batch of 1 lakh 620 doses on May 31 under COVAX project from the United States.
On May 27 this year, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the Pfizer-BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use.
After the regular cabinet meeting on August 23, Zahid Maleque said, Bangladesh would receive 60 lakh more coronavirus vaccines from USA in September.
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