Nepal receives 130,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine from UK

KATHMANDU, August 27: Nepal has received 130,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines in a grant from the United Kingdom (UK). 

The consignment was handed over recently at Tribhuvan International Airport by British Ambassador to Nepal, Nicola Pollitt to Chief Specialist at the Ministry of Health and Population, Dr Dipendra Raman Singh, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Government of Nepal on its part thanked the government and people of the UK for the generous support.

In recent days, Nepal has been administering 300,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines daily, according to the Minister of State for Health and Population, Umesh Shrestha. So far as many as 900,737 people have received COVID-19 vaccine in Nepal.