“Vaccines have to be or can be bought through direct procurement method, this proposal was approved today,” Additional Cabinet Secretary Abu Saleh Mostafa Kamal said at a virtual press briefing following the meeting. “The issue of expenditure will be discussed in the proposal for purchase,” Abu Saleh said on the cost of the vaccines. Responding to why the vaccines were being purchased without tender, he said, “The vaccines have to be taken at a time. The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization or GAVI also assured Bangladesh of giving 680,000 doses for 20 percent of the population. With no effective medicine to treat the disease yet, the whole world is in keenly waiting for the vaccines.

Source: bd News24 December 02, 2020 13:30 UTC