Nepal president’s letters to superpowers don’t bear fruit in vaccine breakthrough

Kathmandu, June 15

The then foreign affairs minister Pradeep Kumar Gyawali had told journalists on May 28 that the government had expected a breakthrough in the import of the Covid-19 vaccines in the next 15 days. Around the same time, the government made President Bidya Devi Bhandari write letters to heads of the states of global superpowers such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia and India, asking for their support to import the vaccines.