{"id":2177,"date":"2021-01-20T16:15:39","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T10:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/?p=2177"},"modified":"2021-01-23T15:21:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-23T09:36:00","slug":"india-will-send-one-million-doses-of-coronavirus-vaccine-to-nepal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/?p=2177","title":{"rendered":"India will send one million doses of coronavirus vaccine to Nepal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. India will be sending one million doses of coronavirus vaccine to Nepal on January 21 under VaccineMaitri, said Hridayesh Tripathi, Nepal Health Minister, on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a press conference, Tripathi said, &#8220;India to provide one million dosages of Covid-19 vaccine to Nepal under VaccineMaitri programme. The vaccines will land in Kathmandu tomorrow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He further said that the frontline workers will be the first to be administered the vaccine. While reiterating India-Nepal&#8217;s friendship, the Minister said that the first lot of vaccines will be on grant assistance.<\/p>\n<p>As part of India&#8217;s Neighbourhood First policy, till now Bhutan and Maldives have been sent the gift of coronavirus vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>India will be supplying vaccines on a gratis basis to Bhutan, Maldives, Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar and Seychelles from January 20 onwards, according to an earlier statement by the Ministry of External Affairs.<br \/>\n<!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_210120_161312_443.sdocx--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. India will be sending one million doses of coronavirus vaccine to Nepal on January 21 under VaccineMaitri, said Hridayesh Tripathi, Nepal Health Minister, on Wednesday. Speaking at a press conference, Tripathi said, &#8220;India to provide one million dosages of Covid-19 vaccine to Nepal under VaccineMaitri programme. The vaccines will land in Kathmandu tomorrow.&#8221; He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,31,68,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economics","category-highlights","category-nepal","category-newspaper"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/covid-19-vaccine-1600937181-1611062660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2179,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177\/revisions\/2179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}