Bangladesh PM greets Modi as India administers 1b Covid vaccines

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi.

Bangladesh desk: Bangladesh  Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today
congratulated her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi on achieving the historic
milestone of administering “One Billion” Covid-19 vaccine doses on October
21, 2021 by his government.

In a message sent to Modi, Sheikh Hasina mentioned it as a remarkable
achievement despite all the challenges that the Covid-19 pandemic has
inflicted on humankind.

She recapped that it will be a major step towards the path of recovery and
normalcy for India and the region.

She also informed Modi that her government has been carrying out a mass
vaccination programme in Bangladesh as more than 60 million people have been
inoculated with vaccines, collected from multiple sources.

She reiterated that India has been an important source of Covid-19 vaccines
for Bangladesh from the very beginning of the vaccination programme. The
prime minister conveyed her thanks to the Government of India for resuming
the export of AstraZeneca Covishield vaccines, hoping that the procurement
will continue uninterrupted in the coming days.

She expressed her firm belief to continue working together more closely
with India to save the people of this region from the scourge of Covid-19
pandemic and to counter the multifarious adverse fallouts of this pandemic.

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