NAC aircraft bringing 4.4 million vaccines from China today

September 17, Kathmandu: The Government of Nepal is bringing 4.4 million Vero Cell vaccines purchased from China on Friday.

A wide-body aircraft of Nepal Airlines Corporation went to China on Thursday at 11 pm to bring the vaccine.

Secretary at the Ministry of Health and Population, Dr Roshan Pokharel, shared that the purchased vaccine will be brought from China on Friday.

Of the 6 million vaccines purchased by the government, 1.6 million vaccines have already arrived.

General Manager of the corporation Dimprakash Poudel said that the wide-body plane left China at 11 pm on Thursday to get the vaccine.

According to him, the aircraft will arrive in Nepal on Friday at 2 pm with the vaccine.

So far, 13.3 million vaccines have been received in Nepal.

The government is preparing to bring 10 million more vaccines by mid-October.