Nepal receives over 700,000 COVID-19 vaccines donated by France through the COVAX Facility
France had previously donated 685,400 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines to Nepal through COVAX in 2022, and more recently, 195,840 of the Pfizer-BioNTech’s bi-valent vaccines as part of a joint Team Europe donation in April 2023.
KATHMANDU: The France government has just delivered 702,720 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech’s bivalent COVID-19 vaccines to Nepal through the COVAX Facility, offering a boost to the country’s ongoing COVID-19 vaccination drive. This latest donation had been divided into separate shipments received across the months of June and July, with the final installment of the donation having […]
The vaccine support from Austria, Czech Republic, France, Greece and Italy will contribute to the Government of Nepal’s efforts to continue vaccinating people across the country
KATHMANDU: Nepal received over 1.5 million doses of Pfizer-BioNTech’s bivalent COVID-19 vaccines donated by the Governments of Austria, the Czech Republic, France, Greece and Italy through the COVAX Facility. Ambassador and Head of the Delegation of European Union to Nepal, Nona Deprez, handed over the vaccines to Dr Roshan Pokharel, Secretary, Ministry of Health and […]
Kathmandu, Jan 27: Nepal on Wednesday received 1.3 million COVID-19 vaccines from France and Italy.
Added to the 4.1 million vaccines sent by Germany, this brings the number of doses shared by EU member states to 5.4 million, half of the donated vaccines received in Nepal through the COVAX facility.
The French government provided 685,400 doses of Vaxzevria (AstraZeneca) COVID-19 vaccine.
Another 663,600 doses of Vaxzevria have been donated by Italy, one of the first countries to support the creation of a multilateral mechanism to counter the COVID-19 pandemic and among the major contributors to the COVAX facility, with more than 385 million euro and 45 million doses of vaccines.
These donations are in addition to the medical equipment such as ventilators, masks, antigen test kits, spare parts for oxygen plants and the like donated by 14 EU Member States through the EU Civil Protection Mechanism when the second COVID wave hit Nepal in 2021.
