Nepal COVID-19 vaccine News
Nepal govt is currently administering Vero Cell, Johnson and Johnson and AstraZeneca vaccine
It has and has so far administered 10 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine
Through the vaccine sharing scheme COVAX, Japan had promised to provide nearly 1.6 million doses of coronavirus vaccine to Kathmandu.
Nepal has expedited preparations to start inoculating elderly and most vulnerable age groups from next month as it received a batch of COVID-19 vaccines purchased from India.
A batch of one million Covishield vaccines developed by the Serum Institute of India (SII) was delivered on Sunday (February 21) via an Air India flight.
"It is to notify to all concerned that the conditional permission has been granted for emergency use authorisation of Covishield vaccine against COVID-19 in Nepal," DDA said.
Covishield has been developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University and will be manufactured by SII.
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