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Five more dies of Covid

Bangladesh to get 1.09 crore COVAX shots by May


  • National
  • Staff Correspondent
  • Published: 04 Mar 2021, 09:17 AM

Bangladesh will receive a total of 10,908,000 shots of Oxford-AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine by May, under the global arrangement called COVAX.

The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), the Vaccine Alliance (GAVI), and the World Health Organization (WHO), as co-leads of the COVAX initiative for equitable global access to Covid-19 vaccines, alongside key delivery partner UNICEF, have published COVAX’s first round of allocations. According to the list, Bangladesh is the fourth country to receive the vaccine.

Meanwhile, Bangladesh recorded five more deaths from the novel coronavirus and 614 new cases in the last 24 hours till Wednesday at 8 am. 

Following the publication of an interim distribution forecast, and based on current knowledge of supply availability, the first round of allocation provides information regarding the provision of doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine to COVAX facility participants through May 2021.

The first round of allocation outlines the delivery of doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, manufactured by Serum Institute of India, to facility participants.

This list will be updated by the end of the week to provide tentative timelines for the supply of doses, split into Feb-March and April-May.

Deliveries for this round of allocations have already begun, with India, Ghana, and Cote d’Ivoire receiving doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. Both Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire began vaccination campaigns utilizing these doses on Monday. Further deliveries are underway for this week. As readiness criteria are fulfilled and doses become available, deliveries will continue on a rolling basis over the coming months.

In addition to the first round of allocations, an exceptional distribution of 1.2 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines, anticipated for delivery in Q1 2021, was announced in early February.

Further allocation rounds in the COVAX portfolio will be announced in due course.

Five more dies of Covid

After the five new death, the country's death toll from the virus now stands at 8,428, read a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Also, the number of novel coronavirus cases in the country rose to 547,930.

The latest day's infection rate was 3.74% of the total tests, though the overall rate in the country till date was 13.40%. The death rate stands at 1.54%.

Among the latest day's victims, four were men and one was a woman.

Moreover, three of them hailed from Dhaka, and two from the Chattogram division.

All the deceased died in different hospitals across the country.

Meanwhile, 16,458 samples were tested in 217 labs across the country in the past 24 hours. A total of 4,089,336 samples have been tested in the country so far.

Also, 936 patients were declared free of Covid-19 during the same period, raising the total number of recoveries to 499,624 with a 91.18% recovery rate.

The country's maiden cases were reported on 8 March last year and the first death from the virus was reported on 18 March.

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