COVID-19 vaccination in Bangladesh

Bangladesh COVID-19 vaccination program
	Percentage of the population vaccinated with at least one dose as of January 17, 2022
Date	27 January 2021 – present ; (mass vaccination started on 7 Feb 2021)
Location	Bangladesh
Cause	COVID-19 pandemic
Target	Immunization against COVID-19
Budget	৳14,000 Crore; (US$1.68 billion)
Organized by	DGHS; MoHFW; ICDDR; DGDA
Participants	81,648,954 people have registered for vaccination and a total of 141,479,208 doses of vaccine have been administered so far of which 85,287,956 people with at least one dose administered of Pfizer–BioNTech, Moderna, Oxford–AstraZeneca, Sinopharm BIBP or Sinovac; 56,191,252 people fully vaccinated 85,287,956 among the target of 117,856,000 has received at least one dose. 95%; 56,191,252 among the target of 117,856,000 has been fully vaccinated. 48%;
Website	Surokkha

Bangladesh began the administration of COVID-19 vaccines on 27 January 2021 while mass vaccination started on 7 February 2021.

The Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine was the only COVID-19 vaccine authorized for emergency use from January to April 2021. Bangladesh ordered vaccines produced by Serum Institute of India; however, it delivered to Bangladesh less than half of the doses that had been agreed. After the consequent vaccine shortage, Bangladesh approved the Russian Sputnik V and Chinese Sinopharm BIBP vaccines for emergency use in late April 2021. Bangladesh also authorized the emergency use of Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to be distributed as part of COVAX. It was reported that the Bangladesh government planned to give permission to Bangladeshi-made Bangavax developed by Globe Biotech Ltd. to conduct the first clinical trial that got listed in the 'Draft landscape and tracker of Covid-19 candidate vaccines' by the World Health Organization (WHO). However, the fate of Bangavax is still uncertain due to an unknown reason. Less than 4% of Bangladesh's population had gotten two doses as of the beginning of June 2021. Bangladesh has already fully immunized more than 70% of its population and received funding from a program called Friendship.

As of October 2021, Bangladesh has fully approved 7 COVID-19 vaccines.

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