China to send 600K more Covid vaccine doses to Bangladesh by June 13

China to send 600K more Covid vaccine doses to Bangladesh by June 13

The government of China is going to send as many as 600,000 doses of vaccine to Bangladesh by June 13 as gift.

Hualong Yan, minister counselor and deputy chief of mission at the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Bangladesh, confirmed the matter in his Facebook post on Saturday.

The fresh consignment of vaccine jabs is "ready for delivery by 13 of June," he wrote.

On May 12, China handed over first batch of 500,000 doses of its Sinopharm vaccine to Bangladesh as gift while Dhaka is keeping its efforts on globally to get access to enough inoculation.