Hungary requested Covid-19 vaccine from Bangladesh?
Hungary has requested Bangladesh for 5,000 shots of Covid-19 vaccine, Bangladesh State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam told the parliament on yesterday.
According to The Daily Star,
“Hungary has requested us for 5,000 shots of Covid-19 vaccine. We will provide them vaccine from the stock we have. “
Shahriar Alam said.
Bangladesh is collecting Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine produced at the Serum Institute of India. The company has sent the first batch of five million doses, part of 30 million doses ordered by Bangladesh.
As we wrote before, the Hungarian government became the first in the EU who buy Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine, also Hungary is became the first EU member to approve China’s Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine. Hungary has five Covid-19 vaccines approved by Hungary’s drug authority: Pfizer, Moderna AstraZeneca, Sputnik-V and Sinopharm.
The Bdnews24.com said, Bangladesh’s ties with Hungary deepened in in 2016 when PM Sheikh Hasina made a state visit to Budapest.
Hungary was one of the first European countries to recognise Bangladesh as an independent nation following the 1971 Liberation War.
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