As vaccines run out, ongoing inoculation phase, set for five days, is shortened Kathmandu Post
Kathmandu, July 16 The Department of Health Services had decided to run the latest phase of the Covid-19 vaccination campaign, which began on Tuesday, for five days. Accordingly, health offices of the three districts of Kathmandu Valley, as well as of others, made an announcement to that effect.
But the vaccines the department supplied to them finished in three days. We had published a notice as per the direction of the department, but now we do not have any more vaccines to administer, Badri Bahadur Khadka, chief of Health Office Kathmandu, told the Post. Only a limited number of doses are left now, which we will administer on Friday.
Focused COVID-19 Media Monitoring, Nepal (May 20, 2021)
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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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