With the disruption in the supply of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from the Serum Institute of India (SII), the government has formed a five-member committee to find alternative sources of Covid vaccines.
The committee, led by the director general of the Drug Administration, will find the alternative sources and submit a report to the Prime Minister s Office within seven days.
A meeting was held in the PMO, chaired by the principal secretary, where this decision was made. There is an uncertainty over vaccine availability. We have formed a five-member committee to find alternative sources of vaccines, Prof Abul Bashar Mohammad Khurshid Alam, DG of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), told The Daily Star yesterday.
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Chinese drugmaker Sinopharm has offered 60 lakh doses of Covid-19 vaccine to Bangladesh when there has been a surge in daily infection rates and deaths for days, said officials.
With Serum Institute of India failing to comply with the commitment to supply three crore vaccine shots in six installments, the Bangladesh government started to explore alternative sources for the jabs in a desperate attempt to continue the inoculation against the Covid-19, they said.
As part of that effort, the Chinese drugmaker Sinopharm through a medium has recently offered Bangladesh to give the 60 lakh doses, the officials added.
Contacted, Health Minister Zahid Maleque told The Daily Star that the Chinese Sinopharm, through its trustee sources, offered 60 lakh doses of its Covid-19 vaccine called BBIBP-CorV.
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The U.A.E. offers a third dose of Chinese vaccine to some with low immune response.
People receiving the Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine in Dubai last month.Credit.Kamran Jebreili/Associated Press
March 22, 2021
The distributor of China’s Sinopharm vaccine in the United Arab Emirates says it has started offering a “very small number” of people a third shot after these recipients reported insufficient levels of antibodies following a two-dose regimen.
The distributor, G42 Healthcare, has found that some people were “not really responsive” to the Sinopharm vaccine, Walid Zaher, the company’s chief researcher, told Dubai Eye Radio on Sunday.