Kathmandu, 8 August: A consignment of additional 300 thousand doses of AstraZeneca vaccine provided by Japan  has arrived in Kathmandu. On Saturday, Nepal  received  the first shipment of 500 thousand doses of vaccines from Japan which was announced as gift of 1.6 million doses under the COVAX facility. The remaining doses of vaccine will be arriving in following weeks. It may be noted that on Friday, Nepal had received 230 thousand doses of Covishield vaccine from Bhutan. People's News Monitoring Service