1.2 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccines arrive from France
Bangladesh today received 1,197,600 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccines from France under the COVAX facility.
An Emirates flight carrying the consignment landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport this morning, according to a press release of the Embassy of France in Dhaka.
This is in addition to a consignment of 2.06 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccines France gave to Bangladesh on November 29 last month, through the COVAX facility.
The government of France has made the sharing of Covid-19 vaccines one of its priorities, in solidarity with the countries hit by the pandemic and to help accelerate vaccination coverage on a global scale, said the release.
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