India has provided one million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Nepal

Kathmandu : India has provided one million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Nepal, Minister for Health and Population Hridayesh Tripathi said on Wednesday.

Speaking at a joint press meeting of the Ministry and the Embassy of India in Kathmandu, Health Minister Tripathi said that the Indian government has provided one million COVID-19 vaccines to Nepal.

According to him, the first installment of the vaccines will be shipped on Thursday.

Minister Tripathi said the vaccines will be given to frontline health workers, employees and security personnel in the first phase.