Kathmandu: Nepal got the first batch of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine from Japan, local media reports said. Japan's representative to Kathmandu Kikuta Yutaka handed over 5,13,420 vaccines to Nepal`s Minister of Health and Population Umesh Shrestha at the country`s Tribhuvan International Airport. On Sunday evening, the vaccine`s second batch will arrive in Kathmandu. The remaining half doses will be brought to the country soon, Nepal`s Foreign Affairs Ministry said.

Through the vaccine sharing scheme COVAX, Japan had promised to provide nearly 1.6 million doses of coronavirus vaccine to Kathmandu."Nepal appreciates Japan for their generous provision of life-saving vaccines to Nepal through COVAX. These Japanese-made AstraZeneca COVID vaccines will be administered to the senior citizens who are waiting for second shots of vaccines of this group," the country`s foreign affairs ministry said in a press release on Saturday.

Let us tell you that on Saturday, the country reported 2,231 new infections in the last 24 hours with the total number of cases reached to 7,12,740. Nepal has vaccinated nearly 68,02,415 people so far across the country.

Deepika-Ranveer no more to be part of Sanjay Leela Bhansali's film

Nora Fatehi's traditional look trends on social media, see pics

Car collides with truck in Rajasthan's Nagaur, 5 dies, 3 wounded; CM Gehlot expresses grief