Kathmandu, May 28
The Nepal Army has brought another consignment of medical supplies for the country’s Covid-19 response on Wednesday. This is the third time that the medical supplies have arrived in Nepal from China, and the second time via air.
The consignment weighing 14 tonnes includes 28,000 PCR kits, personal protective equipment sets, and 30 portable x-ray machines also. The army says the next consignment will arrive via a land route.
After an agreement signed with a private company turned controversial in April, the government had assigned the Nepal Army to fetch the supplies from China under a government-to-government agreement.
