COVAX facility

Germany has provided 345,000 doses of vaccine against coronavirus in the first phase under the COVAX facility to Nepal.

Approximately 2.3 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered to children 5-12 age group have arrived in Nepal

The Pfizer vaccine for children between the ages of 5 and 11 will arrive in June 19.

An additional 1.6 million Moderna vaccines arrived in Nepal on Monday from Qatar through Covax facility.

The government has said that 4 million Moderna vaccines will arrive by Tuesday.

Nepal has so far vaccinated 21.2 million people against COVID.

The coronavirus vaccine brought from China has been returned today after the plane could not land in Tribhuvan International Airport.

Nepal is importing the additional doses of COVID-19 vaccine under the COVAX facility today.

Pfizer vaccine against COVID-19 will be given to children of the age group of 12 to 17 for three days from today.

The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) has begun administering Pfizer vaccines to people above 12 years.