KATHMANDU: Chinese Ambassador to Nepal Hou Yanqi handed over China-donated COVID-19 vaccine to Prime Minister KP Oli Monday.
As many as 800,000 dozes of Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Kathmandu via a wide body airbus 330 of Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC), a Nepali flag carrier, that landed at Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) at 9 am, informed Karishma Shrestha, the spokesperson of the NAC.
Other essential medical goods have also been brought aside from COVID-19 vaccine, according to Shrestha.
A cabinet meeting held on March 14 had decided to accept the medical goods including the China donated COVID-19 vaccine.
Manufactured by Sinovac Biotech, two dozes of this vaccine are recommended for inoculation against COVID-19 and should be stored under the temperature between 2 and 8 degree Celsius.
The airbus had flown to Beijing, the capital city of China, on Sunday.
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