Bangladesh will get 21 lakh doses of Covid-19 vaccine by the first week of May.

Director General of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Prof Abul Bashar Mohammad Khurshid Alam said today (April 25).

“Most of these vaccine doses will be imported by Baximco Pharmaceuticals,” he told reporters following an online discussion marking World Malaria Day.

Among the doses, one lakh are from COVAX while Serum Institute of India will supply the rest, Khurshid Alam said.

He also told journalists that three of the local pharmaceutical companies have the capacity to produce Covid-19 vaccines.

As the deadly variant of the virus is being spread rapidly across India, a proposal has been sent to the authorities concerned to stop all the communications with the neighbouring country, except the transportation of emergency goods, he said.