Shawdesh Desk:

A total of 55 lakh doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine arrived in Bangladesh from China early Thursday.

A flight carrying the vaccine consignment landed at Hazrat  Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka at 1:40am, sources at Public Relations Department of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said.

Earlier on Monday (October 18), Bangladesh received 10 lakh doses of Sinopharm vaccine from China while 10 lakh doses of AstraZeneca vaccine from the Netherlands.