KATHMANDU: An airbus of Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) is flying to Beijing Monday to bring China-donated COVID-19 vaccines.

The NAC Airbus will fly to Beijing at 11 pm today, informed the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA).

As many as 800,000 doses out of one million COVID-19 vaccines donated by China are arriving in Nepal by Tuesday night, government officials have said.

According to the Office of the Prime Minister and the Council of Ministers, Chinese President Xi Jinping had pledged 1 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Nepal during the telephone conversation on May 26.

The NAC Airbus will take off from Beijing at 10 am Tuesday and arrive in Kathmandu by Tuesday night, said TIA.