Officials to check how 2,000 doses of Oxford/AstraZeneca jab arrived without prior approval
Nepalese drug regulators are reportedly investigating a gift of 2,000 Covid-19 vaccine doses brought to the country by a Bahraini sheikh who flew in to climb Mount Everest.
Sheikh Mohamed Hamad Mohamed Al Khalifa arrived in Kathmandu on Monday night with 15 others including three British nationals to climb the world’s highest mountain as part of a Bahrain Defence Force.
Related: ‘It’s as if there’s no Covid’: Nepal defies pandemic amid a broken economy
Written by Michael Safi
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/16/nepals-drug-regulator-to-investigate-vaccine-gift-from-bahrain under the title “
“. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
