Bangladesh has inked a contract to receive 30 million doses of the vaccine, developed by the Oxford University in collaboration with AstraZeneca, from the Serum Institute of India. The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization or GAVI also assured Bangladesh of giving 680,000 doses for 20 percent of the population. The health minister insisted that Bangladesh was in a better position in combatting the outbreak compared to many other countries because of “improvement” in health services. “The health services are up and running even amid the virus outbreak and so are all the work on developing the health ministry,” he said. “The Health Services Division cannot rein in coronavirus infection by itself.

Source: bd News24 November 26, 2020 15:32 UTC