More than 4.5 million people fully vaccinated

FILE PHOTO: A test tube labeled with the vaccine is seen in front of AstraZeneca logo in this illustration taken, September 9, 2020. Photo Courtesy: Reuters

Kathmandu: In the last 24 hours, 85,128 people in Nepal have been vaccinated against the coronavirus.

According to the Ministry of Health and Population, the first dose of Covishield is being given to the people in Provinces 1 and 2 and the second dose of AstraZeneca is being given to them.

So far, 445,961 people in Nepal have been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus. Similarly, 5.3 million people have been vaccinated with first dose.

So far, 13.3 million vaccines have been received in Nepal, of which 130,000 doses of AstraZeneca were received from the UK.