2 million syringes arrives from China

File Photo In this Dec. 25, 2020 file photo, released by Xinhua News Agency, a staff member inspects syringes of COVID-19 inactivated vaccine products at a packaging plant of the Beijing Biological Products Institute Co., Ltd, a unit of state-owned Sinopharm in Beijing. (Zhang Yuwei/Xinhua via AP, File)

Kathmandu: two million syringes provided by the Chinese government have arrived in Nepal.

The syringes have been handed over to the Nepalese government.

The Chinese embassy stated that it is always committed to support Nepal in its fight against the epidemic.

Earlier, the government of Nepal had purchased four million doses of vaccine from China and 1.8 million doses of the vaccine have been received as a grant.