Bangladesh will be among the first to get vaccine doses from India as the friendly neighboring country will resume exports and donations of surplus coronavirus vaccines in October after halting them during a devastating surge in domestic infections."Supplies should start in reasonable quantities soon, with priority partners like Bangladesh being among the earliest recipients. These will be among the first vaccine exports from India since April 2021," the Indian High Commission in Dhaka said on Monday.
Indian Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said, "We will help other countries and also fulfil our responsibility towards COVAX." The country's monthly vaccine output has since more than doubled and is set to quadruple to over 300 million doses next month, Mandaviya said, adding that only excess supplies would be exported.
Bangladesh signed a deal with the Serum Institute of India for 30 million doses of the Oxford University-AstraZeneca vaccine.Serum Institute of India, the world's largest maker of vaccines, is now producing an estimated 150 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine each month, a more than twofold increase since April.India wants to vaccinate all its 944 million adults by December and has so far given at least one dose to 64% of them and two doses to 22%.
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