Bangladesh receives 2.70 lakh Covid shots from Bulgaria
The consignment of vaccine came today by a cargo flight of Turkish Airline
Some 2.70 lakh doses of AstraZeneca vaccine arrived in Dhaka on Wednesday from Bulgaria as a friendly gesture of the European nation.
Health directorate representatives received the shots at Dhaka airport flown in by a Turkish Airline cargo flight, said a foreign ministry media release.
Foreign ministry officials earlier told media that a portion of Covid vaccine that the European country purchased from AstraZeneca remained unused, and Dhaka requested Sofia to either donate or sell the unused shots.
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Responding to that, the country on 2 September approved a draft agreement on donating 2.70 lakh doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine to Bangladesh.
The European nation previously donated Covid vaccine to Bhutan, while Bangladesh earlier got AstraZeneca shots as a gift from India and Japan.
