Dhaka requests Delhi to send vaccine to Bangladesh soon
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Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has requested his Indian counterpart Dr S Jaishankar to ensure the supply of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine doses to Bangladesh as soon as possible to meet Bangladesh’s needs.
He made the request during a conversation over phone with the Indian External Affairs Minister, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Bangladesh entered into a deal with the Serum Institute of India (SII) to purchase 30 million doses of a potential vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca for Covid-19.
Bangladesh was supposed to get five million doses of vaccine per month as the SII and Bangladesh’s Beximco Pharma signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for priority delivery of the vaccine doses.
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KUWAIT CITY, May 15: Kuwaiti Ambassador to India Jassem Al-Najem announced on Saturday that oxygen supply and emergency medical aid from Kuwait continues to arrive to Indian ports to fill shortage in hospitals to thousands of COVID-19 patients. In a statement to Kuwait News Agency (KUNA), Ambassador Al-Najem said that an aid ship from Kuwait arrived in Mumbai Port in western the Indian state of Maharashtra; considered the most affected by COVID-19. The ship carries 75 metric tons of liquid oxygen and 1,000 oxygen cylinders, the ambassador noted.
This aid is coming as part of the sea bridge that Kuwait established to support India in fighting the mutated coronavirus, Al-Najem said, adding more ships are slated to arrive in Indian ports in the coming days. In the coming two weeks, the oxygen supply from Kuwait is poised to reach 1,400 metric tons making it one of the top countries in the world to supply huge quantities of oxygen to India. He also underlined Kuwait’s keenn