"Hope, there will be some positive outcome," said Prof Dr Shahla Khatun, chairman of the ethical Committee at BMRC.
Uncertainty looms large after India -- the lone supplier of the Covid-19 vaccine -- expressed its inability in delivering vaccines to Bangladesh.
The crisis could have been avoided had the government not relied on a single source and took the advantage of other sources who had offered vaccines to Bangladesh earlier, experts believe.
"Since we've a large population, it is a common sense that we were needed to explore more options [for vaccine]," said Prof Be-Nazir Ahmed, former director of disease control at the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.