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Nepal COVID19 Drive
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Covid-19 vaccination drive starts in Nepal

| @indiablooms | Jan 29, 2021, at 04:52 am

Kathmandu: Nepali Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli on Wednesday inaugurated the Covid-19 vaccination drive in Nepal from his official residence.

As per the 'Himalayan Times', more than 400,000 frontline Covid-19 warriors, including health and sanitation workers, will be the first to receive the vaccines during the first phase of the campaign.

Nepal would be administering the India manufactured Covishield, which is the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine manufactured in India by the Serum Institute of India.

India had sent one million doses of Covishield to its neighbour as aid.

(With UNI inputs)

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