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DHAKA, Bangladesh
Mohammad Shahidul Islam, a senior official of a private company in Bangladesh’s port city of Chittagong, received his first dose of a coronavirus vaccine on Feb. 23 and the second on April 20.
But he is nervous about inoculations for the rest of his family.
“I am in tension whether I will be able to vaccinate my family members as we are currently importing vaccines only from India and the country recently declared it will not export vaccines,” Islam told Anadolu Agency.
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Published: 05 Apr 2021 03:40 AM BdST
Updated: 05 Apr 2021 03:40 AM BdST Bangladesh is using COVISHIELD, the vaccine developed by the UK’s University of Oxford and British-Swedish drug maker AstraZeneca, imported from the Serum Institute of India in the inoculation campaign. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi
The government has plans to produce the coronavirus vaccine, developed by the UK’s University of Oxford and Anglo-Swedish company AstraZeneca, in Bangladesh. );
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The local pharmaceutical companies will make the vaccine in their factories if they get the raw materials.
The government wrote to Oxford-AstraZeneca last week, said Health Minister Zahid Maleque. It also sought help from the World Health Organization.