Bangladesh seeks 20m vaccine doses from US: Momen
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DHAKA, May 6, 2021 (BSS) – Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen today said he urged the United States (US) to provide as high as 20 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine while seeking immediate release of 4 million doses as Bangladesh is desperately trying to get more inoculation.
“We’ve sought 10 to 20 million doses of vaccine from USA … (while) we requested immediate release of four million doses,” he told reporters after holding a meeting with US Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl Miller at the Foreign Ministry here.
Dhaka is in touch with the concerned officials of the US government to get vaccines from there, as the US plans to share up to 60 million doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine with other countries.