By A Staff Reporter
Kathmandu, Oct. 7: China is providing an additional 1 million vaccines against COVID-19 as grant assistance to Nepal.
“As a part of its consistent support to Nepal, the government of China will provide further medical assistance worth 5 million Renminbi to install preventive measures in our health system in a bid to save lives from possible third wave of the pandemic,” State Minister for Health and Population Umesh Shrestha shared in his official Twitter account after his meeting with the Chinese ambassador to Nepal, Hou Yanqi, on Wednesday.

The additional grant of anti-COVID vaccine that China will provide is SinoVac, according to the State Minister. Of the 1 million doses of Sinovac, three hundred thousand will be given to the Nepali Army. The State Minister also informed that the “China-aided 1.6 million Verocell will arrive in Kathmandu on October 20, 22 and 23.”

State Minister Shrestha made it clear that Verocell accounts for more than 50 per cent of all the anti-COVID vaccines administered to the people in Nepal. “It gives me immense pleasure to share with you that we’ve administered 8.3 million Verocell vaccines that is more than 50 per cent of the total jabs administered so far.”