800,000 doses of covid vaccines arrives in Nepal
Kathmandu, Aug 19: As many as 800,000 doses of covid vaccine- Vero Cell- has arrived in the country Wednesday evening.
According to the spokesperson at the Ministry of Health and Population, Dr Krishna Prasad Poudel, the vaccines were ferried from China via a wide body aircraft of Nepal Airlines.
Out of the total 1.6 million doses of vaccines recently purchased by Nepal, 800,000 were brought in this lot while remaining 800,000 doses will reach Nepal by this evening.
According to the spokesperson, 600,000 doses of AstraZeneca granted by Japan, will be arriving by this Saturday. The Ministry has notified that the anti COVID-19 vaccines would be administered by following priorities for the targeted age groups.
So far, Nepal has received 11.6 million doses of vaccines from different countries. Meanwhile, the government has set a goal of inoculating 33 percent people by the end of September and to all targeted people by April 2022.
According to the record from the ministry, 4,795,902 individuals have received the first dose of the vaccine, while 3649,760 have received complete doses of the vaccine.
(With inputs from RSS)
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