300 thousand doses of AstraZeneca vaccines arrive from Japan

Kathmandu- Additional 300 thousand doses of AstraZeneca vaccine provided by Japan to Nepal on grant arrived in Kathmandu today. According to the Secretary at the Ministry of Health and Population, Dr Roshan Pokhrel, on Saturday, Nepal had received 500 thousand doses of vaccines from Japan which has announced to gift 1.6 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine under the COVAX facility.

 The remaining doses of vaccine will be arriving after a week. It may be noted that on Friday, Nepal had received 230 thousand doses of Covishield vaccine from Bhutan. The COVID-19 vaccines received from Japan will be administered... Read More