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Second Batch of Vaccines arrives in Nepal from Japan

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Second Batch of Vaccines arrives in Nepal from Japan
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August 23: An additional 200,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines have arrived in Nepal. According to the Ministry of Health and Population, 208,700 doses out of 1.6 million doses provided by Japan under the Covax facility have arrived in the country on Saturday morning.

Earlier, 900,000 doses of vaccine had arrived in Nepal on August 6 and 7. The vaccine is administered to citizens over the age of 25 as the second dose of Covishield. As AstraZeneca and Covishield are vaccines of the same nature produced in different locations, the ministry is using Covishield as an alternative.

The Indian company Serum Institute Pvt. Ltd. is producing Covishield vaccine in collaboration with Oxford University and AstraZeneca. The government of Nepal had started the vaccination campaign with 1 million doses of Covishield vaccine provided by India on January 27 last year. Later, Nepal purchased 2 million vaccines on February 21. So far, India has provided only 1 million doses of vaccines.

The ministry has decided to use AstraZeneca as an alternative to Covishield in the first week of June after it was confirmed that the vaccine would not be provided by India. Chief of the Vaccination Management Division, Jhalak Sharma Gautam said that out of the 1.6 million vaccines provided by Japan, 1.1 million vaccines have already arrived in Nepal and the remaining 500,000 vaccines will arrive in Nepal on Monday. The new vaccine will be given to the ones who received the first dose of Covishield in Provinces 1 and 2.

According to the ministry, a total of 8,770,664 people have been vaccinated against Covid-19, including 4,935,056 people receiving the first dose and 3,835,608 receiving the second as of Saturday (August 21).

 

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