Dhaka, July 7 -- Ten lakh doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine will arrive this month under the Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access (Covax) facility, said Minister for Health and Family Welfare Zahid Maleque.

In addition, the consignments of the AstraZeneca vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India (SII), are also expected to arrive from next August.

The health minister disclosed the information while talking to media on Tuesday.

"Covax informed Bangladesh that 1 million doses of the Oxford-Astragene vaccine will arrive in July," he said, adding that the local representative of Serum Institute also informed that they would start supplying vaccine from August.

Zahid Maleque said the representative, however, did not say exactly ho...