Nepal has received 800,000 doses of Vero Cell Covid-19 vaccines from China as a grant on Tuesday. This is the first lot of the one million doses that Chinese President Xi Jinping announced to give to Nepal last week.
The Nepal Airlines Corporation says its chartered aircraft is flying to Beijing tonight to bring the first lot of the Covid-19 vaccines that China has announced to donated to Nepal last week.
After failing to receive one million doses of the purchased Covishield Covid-19 vaccines from India on time, Nepal has launched another initiative to buy two million Vero Cell Covid-19 vaccines from China.
A group of professionals and activists has appealed to China to support Nepal in its Covid-19 response as the country is struggling hard to respond to the patients' need with a surge in the cases.
As a critical shortage of medical oxygen due to the lack of sufficient cylinders is feared in Nepal due to the surging number of Covid-19 cases across the country, China is donating 20,000 oxygen cylinders.
