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0.5m doses of Chinese vaccine Sinopharm to arrive in Dhaka Wednesday
Diplomatic Correspondent
China on Monday officially announced that 0.5 million doses of its Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine will arrive in Dhaka on Wednesday as a “special gift” from Beijing.
“It’s a concrete step in honouring President Xi Jinping’s pledge of making Covid-19 vaccines a global public good, a solid action taken by both sides towards building a community with a shared future for mankind, and a powerful measure to implement the consensus reached in the Videoconference of Foreign Ministers of China, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka on Covid-19,” said an official statement of the Chinese government.
Relations with China will be damaged if Bangladesh joins US-led ‘Quad’: envoy UNB, Dhaka UNB, Dhaka
Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming today said Bangladesh should not join the Quad , a US-led initiative, and that Bangladesh s relations with China will substantially be damaged if it joins it.
He termed Quad a military alliance aimed against China s resurgence and its relationship with neighbouring countries .
The ambassador said Quad was a narrow-purposed geopolitical clique, and Bangladesh should not join it, since it will not derive any benefit from it.
US, India, Japan and Australia are part of an informal strategic alliance the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or Quad.
5 lakh doses of Chinese vaccine to arrive on May 12: Envoy
Sun Online Desk
10th May, 2021 12:13:45
Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming on Monday officially announced that 5 lakh doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine will reach Bangladesh on May 12 as a “special gift”. It s the latest outcome of China-Bangladesh anti-pandemic cooperation which again shows that our two peoples are in the same boat and we will stand with each other till the end of this battle, he said.
The Ambassador made the announcement during an interaction with the members of Diplomatic Correspondents Association, Bangladesh (DCAB) held virtually. DCAB President Pantho Rahaman and General Secretary AKM Moinuddin also spoke at the event.
Sinopharm begins shipment of its vaccine to Bangladesh
Sun Online Desk
Chinese state-owned company Sinopharm has started delivering its vaccine doses to Bangladesh.
The company has finished packing 500 thousand doses of the gifted vaccine, which are now heading towards Beijing Capital International Airport in a cold-chain container truck.
Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming on Monday officially announced that 5 lakh doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine will reach Bangladesh on May 12 as a “special gift”. It s the latest outcome of China-Bangladesh anti-pandemic cooperation which again shows that our two peoples are in the same boat and we will stand with each other till the end of this battle, he said.