With the pre-winter resurgence of COVID-19 around the world and in Nepal, pressure is mounting on governments to procure vaccines to protect their populations.

Last week, the Nepal government set up a committee of secretaries of the Finance, Home, Health and Foreign Affairs ministries to study vaccines under development as well as procedures to procure them. But Nepal is far behind other countries, which have already ‘booked’ their future supplies.

On Wednesday President Bidya Devi Bhandari signed an ordinance empowering the government to import COVID-19 vaccines from international pharmaceutical companies, and to use them even if they are authorised only for emergency use.

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