KATHMANDU: As many as 1.2 million doses of Vero Cell purchased under the COVAX facility have arrived in Kathmandu.

COVID-19 vaccines have been brought from China at the Tribhuvan International Airport at 9 am.

Sagar Dahal, the chief of the Department of Health Services, informed that out of 5.9 million doses of Vero Cell procured by the Nepal government from China to procure, the first lot has arrived this morning.

The newly brought vaccines will be stored at the vaccine storge center in Teku, informed Upendra Dhungana, the Department of Supplies Management.