Dhaka, May 13 -- Bangladesh has received 3,83,080 doses of vaccine from Chinese company Sinovac Biotech, Health and Family Welfare Minister Minister Sardar Md. Sakhawat Husain said on Wednesday.

"We now have sufficient vaccine stock in hand. We will begin administering polio vaccines and there will be no problem in this regard," he said at a press conference on the current status of government vaccines.

Currently the government is prioritising restoring public confidence in vaccination programmes instead of identifying those responsible for any mismanagement related to measles vaccines, he said.

Many measles patients later develop pneumonia which in some cases becomes life-threatening and requires ventilator support as the final stage ...