Japan to provide AstraZeneca vaccines that could be used for waiting 65+ group
A ray of hope for senior citizens above 65 years of age who are waiting for the second dose of the Covishield Covid-19 vaccine for the past few months--Japan is providing some AstraZeneca vaccines to various Asian countries including Nepal.
KATHMANDU, August 8: Additional 300 thousand doses of AstraZeneca vaccine provided by Japan to Nepal on grant arrived in Kathmandu today. According to the Secretary at the Ministry of Health and Population, Dr Roshan Pokhrel, on Saturday, Nepal had received 500 thousand doses of vaccines from Japan which has announced to gift 1.6 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine under the COVAX facility.
The remaining doses of vaccine will be arriving after a week. It may be noted that on Friday, Nepal had received 230 thousand doses of Covishield vaccine from Bhutan. The COVID-19 vaccines received from Japan will be administered to those citizens who have got the first dose of Covishield.
To date, around 10 million doses of vaccines (gifted and purchased) have arrived in the country. Nepal has bought four million doses of China-manufactured Vero Cell and two million doses of Covishield from India. But, one million doses of vaccine is yet to be supplied from India. Similarly, 1.1 million doses of Covishield have been obtained from India on grant and China has so far gifted 1.8 million doses of Vero Cell to Nepal.
Likewise, Nepal had received 348 thousand doses of Covishield under the GAVI facility and 1.53 million doses of Janssen & Janssen vaccines from the United States of America in gift. With the regular supplies of vaccines, the government had added COVID-19 vaccination centers. Now the number of such centers stands at 4,422 against 2,989 of the earlier. The Kathmandu Valley alone has 149 vaccinations centers against 83 of the past.
Bhutan has delivered 300,000 doses of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines to Nepal as a gift.
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Japan confirms around 800,000 dozes of the AstraZeneca vaccines made in the country will arrive in Nepal this Saturday and Sunday as a grant assistance from the Tokyo government to Kathmandu.
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Of the 1.6 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine provided by the Japanese government to the Government of Nepal, 800,000 doses will be brought to Kathmandu on Saturday and Sunday.
