The second consignment of Covid-19 vaccine AstraZeneca from Japan will arrive in Bangladesh Saturday, officials say.
A freight of All Nippon Airways (ANA), containing 781,320 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, left Narita Airport at 22:40hrs (Japan Standard Time) on Friday. It is scheduled to reach Dhaka on Saturday.
Shahabuddin Ahmed, the Bangladesh Ambassador to Japan, saw off the second consignment.
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The delivery is part of Japan's announced commitment of supplying over 3 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine in phases to Bangladesh under the Covax mechanism.
On July 24, Bangladesh received the first consignment of 245,000 AstraZeneca shots from Japan.
