File photo of Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen Mehedi Hasan/Dhaka TribuneBangladesh has approved the phase-3 human trial of the vaccine developed by China’s SinovacForeign Minister Dr A K Abdul Momen said the government will bring the Covid-19 vaccine from wherever in the world it can get it for the people of the country. The foreign minister said the government has approached everywhere to get the vaccine. Sinovac has already started trial in Indonesia and they are franticly working to begin vaccine trials in many countries, including Turkey. Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla, while visiting Dhaka last month, said New Delhi would make its potential Covid-19 vaccine available for Bangladesh on priority basis once it was produced in partnership with its developer Oxford University. Bangladesh has also contacted with Russia to get access to its vaccine while Dhaka contributed an EU fund to get any potential vaccine of the coronavirus.

Source: Dhaka Tribune September 11, 2020 15:00 UTC