COVAX jabs supply to fall short of forecast

WHO likely to provide only 380,000 doses of 2.25 million it was expected to deliver to Nepal in the first phase of scheme.

At a time when the government is preparing to launch the second phase of the immunisation campaign against the Covid-19, the World Health Organization has informed Nepali officials that it will only provide 13 percent of the vaccine doses it had earlier forecasted to provide Nepal through its COVAX facility in the first phase of the programme.