KATHMANDU: Through the COVAX Facility, Germany gave Nepal more than 1.5 million doses of the bivalent COVID-19 vaccine produced by Pfizer-BioNTech.

Dr. Thomas Prinz, the German ambassador to Nepal, presented Padam Giri, the minister of health, with the vaccines.

Since the start of the pandemic, Germany has backed the people of Nepal and pushed for multilateral solutions like COVAX and ACT-Accelerator, according to Ambassador Dr. Prinz.

He claimed that the key to stopping this pandemic is vaccination.

“I am excited to present vaccines developed in Germany today. The German assistance now covers more than 5.6 million doses, he said.

He continued by mentioning Nepal as one of the top 10 nations receiving German vaccine assistance globally.