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[2] Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said that communication should be maintained for all organizations and all countries for getting Covid-19 vaccine quickly, reports Somoy TV, The Business Post.
[3] The minister said this to the reporters yesterday during the online briefing of the cabinet committee on public purchase.
[4] The minister said he has already discussed with the health minister and provided some directives about the matter. [5] Health minister will immediately sit with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina about the collection of vaccines against the novel coronavirus, he said.
[6] He also said that it is not the right time for collection of vaccines.
[7] The minister said, “Russia is a single source, so we should not depend on a single source. If necessary, we will collect the vaccine from other sources as well.”
[8] “We will not directly communicate with the Oxford for Covid-19 vaccine, but India and Bangladesh can collect that vaccine together,” he said.
In a startling and confusing move, Russia claimed on Tuesday it had approved the world’s first Covid-19 vaccine, as the nation’s ministry of health issued what it called a registration certificate for a vaccine that has been tested on just 76 people.