Tag: #COVAX
Articles tagged with #COVAX
From scarce vaccines, to storage shortage in Nepal
The 4.1 million doses of Moderna and J&J vaccines sent by Germany via COVAX facility arrived in Kathmandu this week. Photo: UNICEFTill a few…
To boost or not to boost
We must not go for third doses when so much of the world has not even got its first Covid-19 vaccine shot
EU to share 200 million vaccines by 2021
Photo: UNICEF NEPALThe European Union has renewed its committment to sharing more than 200 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines with low and…
Vaccines start trickling into Nepal
Much-delayed vaccine supplies to Nepal appear to be picking up after another lot of Chinese Sinopharm vaccines arrived in Kathmandu on Friday,…
Nepal-Bhutan vaccine appeal to European Commission
A group of European, Nepali and Bhutanese personalities have sent an open letter to the European Commission, asking it to allow member states to…
Vaccines too little, too late for Nepal?
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAThere is breaking news every other day: the United States donates 2 million Moderna shots to Bangladesh and Pakistan.…
Hope, hyperbole and hypocrisy of COVAX
Then Health Minister Hridayesh Tripathi receiving the first batch of 348,000 doses of Covishield AstraZeneca vaccines from the UN Resident…
Vacillating on vaccines
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIThe flood of social media posts of donated medical supplies being unloaded at Kathmandu airport every day, gives the…
It’s an Emergency
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASI1. Oxygen To save lives, Nepal’s most urgent need now is oxygen. Not just cylinders, but oxygen generators, concentrators…
"Nepal is a priority for vaccine shipments"
Special interview in Saglo Samaj tv magazine program with Foreign Minister Pradeep Gyawali, who is also a member of the government’s Covid-19…
"Nepal is a priority for vaccine shipments"
Special interview in Saglo Samaj tv magazine program with Foreign Minister Pradeep Gyawali, who is also a member of the government’s Covid-19…
“EU will stand by Nepal in hard times”
Team Europe will do its part so that 20% of Nepal’s population is vaccinated under the COVAX initiative
Despite doubts, Nepal sticks with AstraZeneca jabs
A health worker in Jumla administers Covidshield AstraZeneca vaccine to an elderly this week. Photo: LAXMI NGAKHUSI/UNICEF NEPALOver 1.6 million…
Nepal fights infodemic to push vaccine
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALASo far, 450,000 Nepalis have received the first dose of Covishield, reaching 85% of the target group in the first phase of…
Airlines help vaccine airlift
Photo: UNICEF NEPAL / L P NgakhusiIn a landmark initiative, the world’s 10 leading airlines have joined UNICEF in its Humanitarian Airfreight…
Why is there vaccine hesitancy in Nepal?
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALANepal was one of the first countries in the region to start a mass Covid-19 vaccination drive two weeks ago, but less than…
Next up for vaccines: elderly Nepalis
The first frontline health workers being inoculated with Covishield last week in Kathmandu from the 1 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine…
Glimmers of hope for Nepal on vaccine
The Oxford Vaccine against Covid-19 is possibly the most proximate immunisation option for Nepalis
When will Nepal’s Covid vaccine turn come?
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAWith the pre-winter resurgence of Covid-19 around the world and in Nepal, pressure is mounting on governments to procure…
VAX POPULI
Nepal Army special funeral team brings home the first fatality from Covid-19 in Bhojpur District. She was a 24-year-old woman. The government's…
Sputnik V vaccine mystery in Nepal
On Tuesday news broke about an agreement between the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and Nepal’s Trinity Pharmaceuticals to import 25…