Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) is sending its aircraft to China on a regular basis from July 21 to bring Vero Cell vaccines. According to NAC’s Chief of Operations, Deepraj Juharchan, the supply of anti-COVID-19 vaccines from China would kick off from July 21.Earlier, the NAC had put off its schedule to transport the vaccine by a week after the Chinese vaccine manufacturing company apprised that it needed some more time to manage the supplies.
The Corporation has scheduled three flights to China to ferry the vaccines.The first flight has been scheduled for 5:45 am on July 21, and the next two on July 22 and July 24.Government of Nepal is purchasing the vaccines from China in accordance with the non-disclosure agreement.