The first batch of the 30 million doses of the vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca is expected to arrive in Bangladesh on Monday. Its manufacturer Serum Institute of India will send five million doses a month through Beximco Pharmaceuticals under the deal. Initially, Bangladesh was supposed to administer five million doses in the first month of immunisation, the shipment of two million free doses of the vaccine from India altered the plan. It will now roll out six million doses in the first month and five million doses in the second. As many as 452,027 doctors, nurses and other health workers at government facilities will get the vaccine first.

Source: bd News24 January 24, 2021 20:11 UTC