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Nepal receives 1.9 million doses of Moderna vaccine from COVAX facility



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Kathmandu, Dec. 12: Under the COVAX facility, 1,965,800 doses of the Moderna vaccine have arrived in Nepal.

Bade Babu Thapa, Senior Pharmacy Officer at the management division of the Department of Health Service, informed that 1,965,800 doses of vaccine were received the morning.

He said that with this, a total of 3,651,600 doses of modern vaccine have arrived in Nepal so far. The government is preparing to vaccinate 1.8 million children between the ages of 12 and 18 from December 19.

According to Sagar Dahal, chief of the Child Health and Vaccination Branch, Family Welfare Division, the vaccination campaign is being conducted from schools in 57 districts of the country.