COVID-19 Vaccination Rates in Bangladesh (at least one dose) by division
COVID-19 vaccination in Bangladesh Directorate General of Health Services, Bangladesh COVID-19 vaccination in Bangladesh Bangladesh began the administration of COVID-19 vaccines on 27 January 2021 while mass vaccination started on 7 February 2021. The Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine was the only COVID-19 vaccine authorized for emergency use from January to April 2021. Bangladesh ordered vaccines produced by Serum Institute of India , however it delivered less than half of the doses as agreed to Bangladesh. [3] After the vaccine shortage due to this, Bangladesh approved the Russian Sputnik V and Chinese BBIBP-CorV vaccines for emergency use in late April 2021. [4] [5] Bangladesh has also authorized the emergency of Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine and to be distributed as part of COVAX . It was reported that the Bangladesh government planned to give permission to Bangladeshi made Bangavax developed by Globe Biotech Ltd. [6] to conduct the first clinical trial that got listed