Bangladesh may have to wait at least two weeks for COVID vaccine from Russia, China

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Bangladesh may have to wait at least two weeks for COVID vaccine from Russia, China Staff Correspondent, bdnews24.com 11:45 11:45 PM BdST After approving Russia’s Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine, Bangladesh is set to authorise another shot developed by China, but it may take at least two weeks for the first doses to arrive. Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen briefed the media about the issue after a foreign minister-level virtual meeting on China’s emergency coronavirus vaccine facility for South Asia on Tuesday. “To prepare the papers, actual movement…it may not be possible (for the doses to arrive) before two weeks,” he...