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Nepal first in Asia-Pacific region to provide COVID-19 jabs to refugees
Nepal has become the first country in the Asia-Pacific region to provide COVID-19 jabs to refugees through its national vaccination rollout.
| 31 March 2021 11:45 PM GMT
KATHMANDU: Nepal has become the first country in the Asia-Pacific region to provide COVID-19 jabs to refugees through its national vaccination rollout.
According to the UN refugee agency in Kathmandu, Nepal started to inoculate the COVID vaccine to the Bhutanese refugees living in eastern part of the country from March 7.
The refugees at the settlement in the Jhapa district were vaccinated as part of the second phase of that rollout, which started on 7 March and targets people over the age of 65.
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Bangladesh and Nepal to receive Covishield vaccines on January 21
January 20, 2021
Others like Myanmar, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Mauritius may be sent shipments soon
After Bhutan and Maldives, Bangladesh and Nepal will be the next to receive Covishield vaccines from India with consignments of 20 lakh and 10 lakh doses to reach Dhaka and Kathmandu respectively on January 21, according to sources.
“As close neighbours and friends, Bangladesh and Nepal are among the first countries to receive the Indian government’s gift of Covid vaccines,” a source close to the development told
BusinessLine.
On Wednesday, two consignments of 1.5 lakh doses of Covishield vaccines each, reached Bhutan and Maldives, the first two countries to get supplies from India. Supply to Bangladesh is fulfilment of the assurance given by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina during the December 17, 2020 Virtual Summit that the vaccines would be supplied as