China offers Bangladesh 500k vaccine doses

China delivered 500,000 doses of Sinopharm vaccine as a present to Bangladesh on Wednesday to assist it deal with a scarcity.
Bangladesh, a nation of 160 million folks, is in determined want after India banned exports of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines produced by the Serum Institute of India due to its personal devastating surge in infections.
Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming formally handed over the Sinopharm vaccines in Dhaka on Wednesday. Bangladesh has already accepted the Chinese vaccines after the World Health Organization has lately listed the Sinopharm for emergency use globally.

Bangladesh obtained about 7 million doses from the Indian institute, however its deal had referred to as for 30 million doses to be delivered by June.

Bangladesh already suspended administering the primary dose of vaccines. Some few tons of of hundreds of persons are due their second dose however can be omitted if new doses don’t arrive quickly.
Bangladesh has tried to diversify its vaccine sources, asking the United States for 4 million doses from its inventory and signing a take care of Russia to supply Sputnik-V vaccines domestically in Bangladesh.