A nurse fills a syringe with the Oxford-AstraZeneca's Covishield vaccine at the Dhaka Medical College vaccination centre in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Feb 9, 2021. [Photo/Agencies] DHAKA – The Bangladeshi government on Wednesday gave the greenlight to a proposal of producing Chinese and Russian COVID-19 vaccines in the country. Bangladesh’s Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved the proposal to produce the vaccines — China’s Sinopharm and Russia’s Sputnik V. Shahida Akhter, a senior Cabinet Division official, said several leading Bangladeshi pharmaceutical firms in collaboration with the Chinese and Russian companies will produce the vaccines. The decision came days after Dhaka suspended the…
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