A total of 10 lakh doses of Covishield vaccines reached Dhaka from Serum Institute of India (SII) on Saturday afternoon.
A flight of Emirates Airlines carrying the vaccines from Mumbai via Dubai reached Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 5:25pm.
Earlier, India allowed SII to export 10 lakh doses of Covid-19 vaccine Covishield each to Bangladesh, Nepal and Myanmar.
SII entered into a commercial contract with Beximco Pharma to supply a certain quantity of Covishield vaccine but that was halted following the devastating second wave of the pandemic that overwhelmed India in March-April-May.
Pune-based pharmaceutical company SII has also been allowed to supply bulk of around three crore Covishield vaccine doses to AstraZeneca in the UK.
The Covid-19 vaccine Covishied has been developed by SII in collaboration with Oxford University and AstraZeneca under technology transfer.