Kathmandu, 1 November: A shipment of AstraZeneca, the vaccine against Covid-19, has arrived Nepal from the Maldives. Nepal received 201,600 doses of vaccines last night from the Maldives under the COVAX facility.

So far in Nepal, 8 million 668 thousand 592 people have received the first dose of vaccine while 7 million 189 thousand 689 have  been fully vaccinated.

People's News Monitoring Service