Dhaka, May 12 -- The government has initiated the process of importing 95 million doses of vaccines to maintain a steady immunisation flow nationwide over the next 12 months.

At a weekly briefing at the Secretariat on Tuesday, Information Advisor Zahed Ur Rahman said the government has already paid $83.6 million to United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) to secure 10 types of vaccines.

Shipments began arriving earlier this month, with over 1.5 million inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) doses reaching the country on May 3.

This was followed by another 1.5 million measles rubella (MR) doses and 900,000 tetanus diphtheria (TD) doses on May 6.

The advisor said by May 10, a total of 13.2 million doses of MR, TD, bacill...