500 thousand doses AstraZeneca vaccines arrive from Japan

Kathmandu : Around 5hundred thousand doses of COVID-19 vaccine that the Japan government has aided to Nepal have arrived Kathmandu today.

Secretary of Ministry of Health and Population Dr Roshan Pokharel informed that 500,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines have arrived Nepal in the first phase under COVAX facility.

The Government of Japan had announced to provide 1.6 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine to Nepal in the grant. Additional 300 thousand doses of vaccines would arrive in Kathmandu tomorrow, shared the ministry sources. The Ministry informed, Remaining quantities of the vaccine would be made available within a week.

On Friday, Nepal had received 2 hundred 30 thousand doses of the Covishield vaccine from Bhutan.

The vaccine to be received from Japan and Bhutan would be emphatically administered to those inoculated with the first jab.