Dhaka requests Delhi to send vaccine to Bangladesh soon
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has requested his Indian counterpart Dr S Jaishankar to guarantee the way to obtain Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine doses to Bangladesh at the earliest opportunity to meet up Bangladesh's needs.
He made the demand throughout a conversation over mobile with the Indian External Affairs Minister, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, reports UNB.
Bangladesh entered right into a manage the Serum Institute of India (SII) to buy 30 million doses of a potential vaccine appearing developed by AstraZeneca for Covid-19.
Bangladesh was likely to get five million doses of vaccine monthly while the SII and Bangladesh's Beximco Pharma signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for priority delivery of the vaccine doses.
Earlier, Bangladesh sought in least 3 million doses of vaccine beneath the agreement to address the immediate demand found in Bangladesh.
Bangladesh has up to now received sole 7 million of Oxford-AstraZeneca covid-19 vaccine doses produced by Serum Institute through its contract. Bangladesh as well received 3.3 million doses of vaccine as a bilateral partnership gift.
Through the telephone conversation in Tuesday, Dr Jaishankar educated that he is alert to the demand for another dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in Bangladesh.
Dr Momen said Bangladesh has requested america to supply vaccines urgently since India could not source vaccines to Bangladesh timely.
Dr Jaishankar assured Dr Momen of requesting the US to provide the vaccine to Bangladesh as the Bangladesh Foreign Minister raised the problem with his Indian counterpart.
Dr Momen conveyed condolences over the deaths in India because of Covid-19 and conveyed sympathy to the bereaved family members.
Meanwhile, a complete of 1014 Bangladeshi-American professional doctors, engineers, professors and others, led simply by Dr AFM Haque, possess submitted a plea to the White House requesting the US Administration to send the vaccine to Bangladesh.
On the other hand, the US branch of Bangabandhu Foundation, Muktijoddha Council and Sheikh Rahman, Person in the Georgia State Senate also requested the White House to give vaccine doses to Bangladesh.
Expatriates Bangladeshis in america came to understand that Bangladesh isn't in the priority list of the US as a result of low price of infection and deaths in Bangladesh.
