Securing Vaccines: Local production with own funds
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Star report
Star report
The government is considering whether to locally produce Covid-19 vaccines with its own funds as the supply of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from India's Serum Institute remains uncertain.
The production will be funded by the Tk 10,000 crore allocated in this year's budget to combat the pandemic.
The government funds will be spent for either locally manufacturing the vaccine with the developers' assistance or an arrangement to co-produce with the inventors.
Bangladesh is trying to source vaccines as the country's mass inoculation programme stumbled following India's restriction on export of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine produced by Serum.