Bangladesh to set up international vaccine institute

Bangladesh recently decided to set up an international institute for vaccine production including for COVID 19.

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The government will sign an agreement with South Korea to set up the vaccine institute in Bangladesh. She said that government to government negotiations are going on with the countries which have developed vaccines for COVID 19 for technology transfer.

The capacity of three Banglaesshi firms has been assessed for the production of the COVID 19 vaccines. A vaccine developed by one of the Bangladeshi companies Globe Biotech Ltd is now in the trial stage.

The government has taken initiative to produce COVID 19 vaccine along with collecting vaccines from various sources in the world in view of the Corona pandemic.

Bangladesh has so far received 1.08 crore doses of the COVID 19 vaccine from foreign sources out of which 1.02 crore doses came from India including the gifted doses of over 3 million doses.