By TRN Online, Kathmandu, Mar. 7: A sum of 348,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines under COVAX facility has been arrived in Kathmandu today morning.
Minister for Health and Population, Hridayash Tripathi has received the vaccines today that were provided to Nepal under the international iniciatives coordinated by World Health Organization (WHO).
Under the COVAX vacility the doses of AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccines have been produced by the Serum Institute of India
Officially called the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access Facility, COVAX is a multilateral initiative to develop, manufacture and deploy vaccines against the novel coronavirus to countries across the world on a fair and equitable basis.
The primary objective of COVAX is to ensure that the less wealthy nations of the world and their people also have access to approved COVID-19 shots.
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