10 lakh Pfizer doses to arrive Aug 30
The 10 lakh doses of Pfizer vaccine, gifted by the US, is set to arrive in Dhaka on August 30, further easing the crunch of Covid-19 vaccines in the country.
The consignment is scheduled to reach Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 7:15pm, according to a press release from the health ministry.
Health Minister Zahid Maleque, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen and US Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl Miller will be present at the airport to receive the consignment, the release said.
Earlier on May 31, the first consignment of 1,06,000 doses of Pfizer vaccine reached Dhaka. The government received the vaccine under the global vaccine-sharing initiative Covax.
Those vaccines were administered in six centres inside Dhaka city, as they need to be stored at about negative
70 degrees Celsius, which is far below the normal refrigeration level.
The ministry has not yet disclosed details on the administration of the new consignment.
Meanwhile, the country logged 114 deaths from Covid-19 in 24 hours till 8am yesterday -- the lowest in nearly two months, according to Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
The last time DGHS reported fewer deaths than yesterday's was back on June 29, when 112 died from Covid-19. Since then, the country has witnessed higher numbers of deaths every day, with the highest being 264 deaths on August 5 and 10.
Then the number of Covid-19 deaths continued declining.
With the latest count, the total number of deaths reached 25,513, which is 1.73 percent of all Covid-19 cases detected so far.
With yesterday's 5,249 new Covid-19 cases, the total number of confirmed infections of the novel coronavirus rose to 14,72,964.
A total of 34,708 tests were performed yesterday, and 15.12 percent of them returned positive.
Of the deceased yesterday, 56 were male and 58 female. The highest deaths, 42, were in Dhaka division, followed by 29 in Chattogram, 13 in Khulna, nine in Sylhet, six in Rangpur and Rajshahi, five in Barishal and four in Mymensingh.
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