US to provide another 14m Pfizer jabs
The US administration has declared that it will provide another 14 million Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine doses to Bangladesh under the COVAX facility, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen said yesterday.
"It's good news," he said in a message from Paris mentioning that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken moderated a high-level ministerial virtual meeting on Covid-19 and beyond on Wednesday.
The Bangladesh foreign minister and his 25 counterparts from other countries took part in it.
Bangladesh demanded that vaccines be made public good affordable to all countries, and pharmaceutical companies be encouraged and assisted to produce it locally.
Momen disclosed that Bangladesh has distributed 78 million vaccine doses, including the first dose of 46 million and 32 million as the second dose.
He said Bangladesh needs more doses to vaccinate at least 80 percent of its 165 million people.
The good news is, Momen said, the Covid-19 daily infection rate in Bangladesh is now around 1 percent.
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