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Director General of the Department of Health, Prof. ABM Khurshid Alam told bdnews24.com that they had already received the money from the Ministry of Finance. He will try to deposit it in the bank on Sunday.
The money will be deposited in advance with Janata Bank of Bangladesh and Standard Chartered Bank as the third bank. In return, the Seram Institute will give a bank guarantee.
After the first shipment of vaccine arrives in Bangladesh, the Seram Institute will be able to withdraw money from the bank. The rest of the money will be paid when the vaccine supply begins.
Khurshid Alam said: “There will be a 100 percent guarantee that if for some reason (the Seram Institute) is not vaccinated, the government will be able to get all the money back.”
The government of Bangladesh signed an agreement with the Serum Institute of India on November 5 to purchase 30 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. Under the agreement, the Seram Institute will ship 5 million doses of Ticker each month.
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Health Minister Zahid Malek has already stated that the purchase price of each dose of ticker is £ 4. The total cost will be $ 5. If you calculate in Bangladeshi rupees, it is like 425 rupees.
It has already been announced that the government will purchase the coronavirus vaccine and distribute it for free.
Khurshid Alam said that more than 600 million rupees is being paid in advance. We will send the money to the bank via TT (telephone transfer). “
He said he would try to deposit the money in the bank on Sunday. “The money must be paid within this week,” he said. If we can do it today, we will send this money as soon as possible. “
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The Serum Institute has partnership agreements with Oxford and AstraZeneca and the Gates and Gavi Foundation to produce and supply more than 100 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.
Beximco Pharmaceuticals, the country’s leading pharmaceutical company, signed an agreement with the Serum Institute last August to import vaccines from India and supply them to Bangladesh.
Under the agreement, Beximco Pharmaceuticals is the “exclusive distributor” of the vaccines produced at the Seram Institute in Bangladesh.
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