US envoy hands over 25 lakh Pfizer doses
US Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl R Miller has handed over 25 lakh doses of Pfizer vaccine to Bangladesh.
The vaccines build on earlier US Covid vaccine donations for a total of 1,15,00,000 doses.
Ambassador Miller and Kathryn Stevens, mission director of USAID, handed over the vaccines to Syed Mojibul Huq, additional secretary of the health ministry, and Prof Abul Bashar Mohammad Khurshid Alam, director general at Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), during a ceremonial handover event at the capital's Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) headquarters yesterday.
"The United States is pleased to donate these additional 2.5 million [25 lakh] doses of life-saving Pfizer vaccine to Bangladesh and continue our support to the national vaccination campaign," said Ambassador Miller.
This delivery of Pfizer vaccines comes as part of the broader commitment by the United States to lead the global Covid-19 response by donating a billion doses of Pfizer vaccines around the world – free of charge – through 2022.
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