A wide-body plane of Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC), A 330, is flying to Beijing to bring in anti-COVID vaccines on Monday.

Dil Prasad Paudel, managing director of NAC, said that preparations were made to send the A 330 wide-body airplane to Beijing to bring in the vaccines.

On a telephone conversation with Bidya Devi Bhandari on Monday, Chinese President Xi Jinping had on Monday announced that China would provide a million doses of COVID vaccine to Nepal as grant assistance.

"We are preparing to send the A 330 wide-body plane to China to bring in a million doses of vaccines provided by China as per the urge of the President," said Paudel.

Source: The Rising Nepal