By A Staff Reporter
Kathmandu, Aug. 23: The government has received another 208,700 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines provided by Japanese government under the COVAX facility.  
According to Bade BabuThapa, Senior Pharmacist of the supply management branch, under the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP), the Qatar Airlines carrying 208,700 doses of anti-COVID-19 vaccines arrived in Kathmandu Saturday morning.

“We will store the AstraZeneca vaccines in Tekuand will distribute them to provinces shortly,” said Chief Thapa.
Dr. Bharat Bhandrai, Immunisation Officer at the Child Health and Immunisation Section, under the MoHP, said that the vaccineswould be dispatched to Province 1 and 2 to inoculate citizens aged above 65 years.
The citizens of provinces 1 and 2 aged above 65 who had received their first dose of Covishield are yet to be inoculated with the second dose.

Earlier, Japan had promised to provide 1.6 million doses of AstraZeneca, of which Nepal has received 900,000 doses. The remaining doses will arrive in Nepal on August 23.
Nepal has received a total of 10,860,170 anti-COVID-19 vaccines. Of them, 2,448,000 doses are of Covishield, 1.6 million Johnson & Johnson, 7.4 million Vero Cell, and 1,077,320 AstraZeneca.