A consignment of 4.4 million doses of the Vero cell vaccine against COVID-19 has arrived in Nepal today.
An aircraft of Nepal Airlines Corporation brought the vaccine manufactured by Beijing Institute of Biological Production (BIBP), China under Sinopharm.
NAC's wide-body aircraft-330 had departed to China's capital city on Thursday for bringing in the vaccines.
With the arrival of the vaccines today, Nepal has received a total of 13.3 million doses of anti-COVID vaccines, of which the government has purchased five million doses while the remaining are received as grants from various countries.
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