Press Release Honorable Mr. Bishnu Prasad Paudel, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance led the Nepali delegation to the Asia and Pacific High-Level Conference on Belt and Road Cooperation held virtually this evening. The theme of the conference was “Promoting Cooperation on Combating the Pandemic for Sustainable Recovery”. The Honorable Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, in his address [ Read More … ]

Press Release Under the European Union’s Civil Protection Mechanism, Nepal received tranches of critical healthcare equipment and supplies generously supported by the Government of Denmark and the Government of Ireland to help Nepal fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Her Excellency Ms. Nona Deprez, the Ambassador of EU to Nepal, along with the Honorary Consul of Denmark and and the representative [ Read More … ]

Press Release The UNDP Nepal today handed over to Nepal medical equipment and supplies to help Nepal fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Senior officials of the Ministry of Health and Population received 200 units of Bio Medical Oxygen Concentrators 5L and 200 units of Bio Medical Oxygen Concentrators 10L from Ms. Ayshanie Medagangoda-Labé, Resident Representative to the UNDP, Nepal at [ Read More … ]

Press Release  Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Hon’ble Mr. Raghubir Mahaseth held a virtual meeting with H.E Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Singapore today. During the meeting, they discussed Nepal-Singapore relations as well as COVID-19 related issues. Hon’ble Deputy Prime Minister thanked Singapore Foreign Ministry, Temasek Foundation International and its partners for providing much needed [ Read More … ]

Press Release In response to the request of the Government of Nepal, the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany has extended support of medical equipment and supplies to help Nepal fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. His Excellency Mr. Roland Schafer, the German Ambassador to Nepal, handed over the consignment to Hon. Mr. Sher Bahadur Tamang, Minister for Health and [ Read More … ]

Press Release A special aircraft of the Australian Defence Force carrying essential medical supplies to support Nepal in its fight against Covid-19 pandemic reached Kathmandu today. The shipment consisting of masks, gloves and coveralls were handed over to Lieutenant General Prabhu Ram Sharma, Chief of General Staff of the Nepal Army by the Ambassador of Australia to Nepal H. E. [ Read More … ]

Press Release Nepal received a medical consignment of 17,760 sets of RT-PCR test kits provided by the Government of the Republic of Korea today. H.E. Mr. Park Chong-suk, Ambassador of the Republic of Korea (ROK) to Nepal, handed over the medical assistance to Dr. Roshan Pokherel, Chief Specialist at the Ministry of Health and Population in a brief hand-over ceremony [ Read More … ]

Press Release A special flight, carrying health equipment and supplies provided by the Government of the United Arab Emirates to support the Government of Nepal in its fight against Covid-19 pandemic, arrived Kathmandu this morning. The shipment consisting ventilators, trolleys, masks, coverall gown and goggles was handed over to the representative of the Ministry of Health and Population by the [ Read More … ]

Press Release In solidarity with Nepal in its fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, the French Government has extended support of medical equipment and supplies to the Government of Nepal. His Excellency Mr. Francois-Xavier Leger, Ambassador of France to Nepal, handed over to Hon. Mr. Hridayesh Tripathi, Minister for Health and Population, the shipment containing 504,000 FFP2 masks; 20,225 antigenic test [ Read More … ]

Press Release As conveyed by His Excellency Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China, during the telephone conversation with Rt. Hon. President Mrs. Bidya Devi Bhandari on May 26, 2021, a consignment of 800,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Kathmandu today. The vaccine and the similar number of syringes were airlifted from Beijing to Kathmandu by a [ Read More … ]