Kathmandu, 4 November: The Chinese government has handed over 1.6 million doses of vaccine against Covid-19 to Nepal. Chinese Ambassador to Nepal, Hou Yanqi, handed over the Vero Cell vaccines to Minister of Health and Populations, Birodh Khatiwada, amidst a programme on Wednesday. On the occasion, Health Minister Khatiwada said the handover of the anti-Covid vaccines to Nepal by China has helped strengthen Nepal-China relations. "Vaccines provided by the Chinese government will help Nepal government's goal to vaccinate all eligible population in Nepal by April, 2022" he added. Chinese Ambassador Hou informed that the Chinese military would extend 300 thousand doses of vaccines to Nepal Army. The consignment would arrive Nepal coming Friday. China has so far provided 15.9 million doses of vaccines. Among which, 3.4 million doses were received on grant. People’s News Monitoring Service