Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has thanked her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi for sending over two million doses of COVID-19 vaccine as a present to Bangladesh.

India on Thursday formally handed over 2 million doses of domestically produced Covishield vaccine to Bangladesh. The vaccines had been supplied at an important time when the variety of coronavirus instances in Bangladesh is rising.

“I thank Prime Minister Narendra Modi for sending the vaccine (batch) as a present,” Ms. Hasina stated at a web-based worldwide convention held on the event of the 100th founding anniversary of the College of Dhaka on Thursday.

She stated the federal government has already deliberate how it might proceed with the vaccine, the Dhaka Tribune reported.

“We’ve got taken all of the steps to face the COVID-19 scenario within the nation,” Ms. Hasina stated.

Aside from the present supply of vaccines, Bangladesh can also be set to buy three crore doses of India-made coronavirus vaccine.

Ms. Hasina hoped that the vaccine that Bangladesh procured from India would arrive by January 25-26, the report stated.

Bangladesh has up to now recorded 7,966 COVID-19 deaths because the outbreak of the pandemic in March final yr, whereas the whole variety of infections have surged to over 530,270.

India additionally handed over 1 million doses of coronavirus vaccines to Nepal on Thursday. On Wednesday, India despatched 150,000 doses of Covishield vaccines to Bhutan and 100,000 doses to the Maldives.