Kathmandu, March 12 -- The management division of the Department of Health Services has formed a three-member expert team to oversee the disposal of four million doses of the Sinovac-CoronaVac Covid-19 vaccine that expired in December 2023.

Officials say that the team was formed after a Kathmandu-based private company agreed to destroy the expired vaccine doses using its incinerator.

"We have sent the file to the Ministry of Health and Population for consent to destroy the expired vaccine doses," said Dr Pawan Jung Rayamajhi, director of the division. "Once we receive the go-ahead, the expired vaccine doses will be disposed of safely."

The vaccine doses were supplied by the Chinese government in March 2022 under grant assistance. The g...