প্রকাশ: 22/02/2022
The United States has donated another 6.2 million (62 lakh)
doses of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine to Bangladesh to help expand the vaccination
coverage among the youth and hard-to-reach communities.
These latest donations via the COVAX initiative bring
the total US government vaccine contribution to more than 51 million (5.1
crore) doses, with many millions more scheduled to arrive in the coming months.
“We applaud the government of Bangladesh for recently
surpassing the milestone of reaching 100 million people with at least one dose
of the Covid-19 vaccine. The United States will continue to donate
life-saving vaccines and provide support to help Bangladesh reach the goal of
fully vaccinating 70% of the country by the middle of 2022,” US Embassy Chargé
d’Affaires Helen LaFave said on Tuesday.
In addition to vaccine donations, the US continues to work
closely with Bangladesh to support the national Covid-19 vaccination
campaign.
The US has provided training to over 7,000 healthcare
providers on proper vaccination management, supported cold-chain storage and
transportation, and assisted with targeted campaigns to vaccinate students and
hard-to-reach people.
To date, the US has contributed over $121 million in
Covid-related development and humanitarian assistance through the US Agency for
International Development, the Department of Defense, the Department of State,
and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
This assistance has saved lives and treated individuals
infected with Covid-19, strengthened testing capacity and monitoring, enhanced
case management and infection prevention and control practices, and improved
supply chain and logistics management systems.
The US support has also protected frontline workers and
increased the public’s knowledge on how to better protect themselves from
infection.
The US has donated $4 billion to support the worldwide COVAX
effort, which includes support for ultra-cold chain storage, transportation,
and safe handling of Covid-19 vaccines, making the country the world’s largest
donor for equitable global corona vaccine access.
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