As million more vaccine doses arrive, experts call for massive awareness programme Kathmandu Post
Kathmandu, Feb. 22 After India announced that it was giving a million doses of Covishield vaccine against Covid-19 last month, Nepal, like other countries in the world, decided to first inoculate frontline workers who are most vulnerable to infection.
The government came up with a figure of 430,000 such frontline workers which included health workers, supporting staff, ambulance drivers, female community health volunteers, security personnel deployed for managing the bodies of Covid-19 victims, people residing in old age homes and prisoners.
The inoculation drive started with the group on January 27 and was over on February 5, with only 171,486 people taking the jabs. The Health Ministry extended the campaign by a day and announced that anyone registered with any of the professional health workers associations could get vaccinated. The number that chose to be immu
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