US sends 2.5 million doses of vaccine to Bangladesh

The United States began shipping 2.5 million doses of Moderna vaccine against Covid-19 on Tuesday, June 29, to Bangladesh, hit by a new wave of infections, a White House official told AFP.

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«Thanks to the United States’ commitment to play a leading role in the fight against the pandemic around the world, 2.5 million doses of Moderna vaccine will make its way to Bangladesh», Declared this official on condition of anonymity. Faced with the urgency of the situation, deliveries should be made in full by the end of the week.

Bangladesh closed almost all of its public transport on Monday, June 28, before strict containment intended to contain the progress of the Covid-19, forcing thousands of employees in Dhaka to walk to work.

119 deaths, a record in 24 hours

On Sunday, this country of 170 million inhabitants, a neighbor of India, recorded 119 deaths, a record in 24 hours since the start of the pandemic, and new daily contaminations have been around 5,000 for several days, an outbreak attributed to by the authorities to the Delta variant identified for the first time in India. Bangladesh “experiences a 55% increase in the number of cases week-over-week, largely caused by the Delta variant“, Underlined an official of the White House to explain the inscription of this country in the list of the urgencies.

The American president called his country “arsenalGlobal vaccine in the war against the pandemic, reflecting the power of the US pharmaceutical industry as well as its willingness to reaffirm Washington’s presence on the world stage after an often chaotic presidency of its predecessor Donald Trump.

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The White House assures that its vaccine deliveries, for the most part organized through the Covax program of the World Health Organization, are free in every sense of the word. “We share these doses not to secure favors or extract concessions. Our vaccines do not come with conditions. We do this for the sole purpose of saving lives», Said the official.

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