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COVAX expects full vaccine supplies from India's Serum in May, says UNICEF

NEW DELHI, March 28: A World Health Organization (WHO)-backed programme to supply coronavirus vaccines to poorer countries expects that the Serum Institute of India (SII) will resume full deliveries of the AstraZeneca shot to it in May, UNICEF said on Saturday.

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From scarce vaccines, to storage shortage in Nepal

The 4.1 million doses of Moderna and J&J vaccines sent by Germany via COVAX facility arrived in Kathmandu this week. Photo: UNICEF ill a few months ago, Nepal was struggling with a critical shortage of vaccine doses, and the situation was so dire that the 1.4 million senior citizens were waiting past the due date for their […]

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Four freezers to store Pfizer vaccines arrive in Nepal

Four freezers, provided under the COVAX facility via UNICEF, capable of storing an additional 120,000 doses of Pfizer vaccine, have arrived in Nepal. All four freezers, with 100-litre capacity, are stored in Airport and are yet to be presented to Nepal by the COVAX facility.

The Rising Nepal श्रावण २०७८

North Korea rejects Chinese vaccines: UNICEF

SEOUL, Sept. 2 : North Korea has rejected around three million doses of a Chinese Covid-19 vaccine, suggesting they should be given to countries in greater need, Unicef said Thursday. The impoverished North was the first country to impose a strict lockdown when it sealed its border in January last year to stop the virus spreading from neighbouring China, where it first emerged before sweeping the world. Pyongyang insists it has yet to see any cases of the virus -- a claim that analysts doubt -- but it has paid a huge economic price for the blockade, with the regime admitting in June it was tackling a "food crisis". Regardless, the isolated country told UNICEF -- which distributes vaccines under the COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access (Covax) programme for low-income countries -- that the Chinese-made vaccines could be given to others, the UN agency said. North Korea's public health ministry "has communicated that the 2.97 million Sinovac doses being offered to DPR Korea by Covax may be relocated to severely affected countries in view of the limited global supply of Covid-19 vaccines and recurrent surge in some countries", a UNICEF spokesperson told AFP. Pyongyang would "continue to communicate" with COVAX "to receive COVID-19 vaccines in the coming months", they added. In July, a South Korean think tank affiliated with Seoul's spy agency said Pyongyang had also rejected shipments of AstraZeneca's vaccine offered by the Covax scheme, apparently over concerns about side effects. The Institute for National Security Strategy added at the time that the North was not equipped with sufficient cold chain storage for the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, while being sceptical about the effectiveness of Chinese vaccines.

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Japanese-made AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Kathmandu

Japanese-made AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Kathmandu KATHMANDU, Aug 7: The Japanese-made AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Kathmandu on Saturday. Ambassador of Japan to Nepal, Kikuta Yutaka attended the hand-over ceremony at the Tribhuvan International Airport with State Minister of Health and Population Umesh Shrestha, Joint Secretary of North East Asia Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lok Bahadur Thapa, Representative of UNICEF Nepal, Elke Wisch and WHO Representative to Nepal, Dr Rajesh Sambhajirao Pandav. This vaccine donation from Japan for Nepal through the COVAX facility was announced by Motegi Toshimitsu, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan on 13 July. Remaining half of 1.6 million doses pledged by Japan will be shipped to Kathmandu shortly,according to the Embassy of Japan in Nepal.

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G7 urged to donate ’emergency’ supplies to vaccine-sharing scheme

The head of UNICEF on Monday asked G7 countries to donate supplies to the COVAX vaccine-sharing scheme as an emergency measure to address a severe shortfall caused by disruption to Indian vaccine exports. India has curbed exports of the AstraZeneca vaccine made by its Serum Institute, which had been pledged to COVAX, to be used […]

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Vaccine Diplomacy In Time Of Pandemic

COVID-19 is a global health emergency. It took quite some time to develop the vaccines to curb the pandemic. However, COVID vaccines, in comparison to other vaccines in the past, have arrived quite quickly in Nepal. Thanks to our great neighbours India and China that respectively provided one million doses and 800,000 doses of vaccines to Nepal. It has also received 348,000 doses of Covishield with the support of the World Health Organisation (WHO), UNICEF and other concerned organisation. Under the first COVAX allocation, the COVAX Facility will deliver 1.92 million doses of vaccine to Nepal by the end of May 2021.

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UNICEF urges G7 to dispatch vaccines

All photos: UNICEF NEPAL NICEF has made an urgent appeal ahead of a G7 summit next month to ask developed countries to release some of their vaccine stockpiles to fight the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic sweeping the Subcontinent. UNICEF with WHO are sponsors of the COVAX Facility that had promised to procure vaccines […]

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UNICEF to lead procurement and supply of COVID-19 vaccines in world’s largest and fastest ever operation of its kind

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