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As Nepal prepares for Covid-19 vaccination drive, challenges are huge, experts say Kathmandu Post
Nepal, Jan. 19 When the District Health Office in Humla directed local health offices to send a list of health workers and female community health volunteers working under them for Covid-19 vaccination programme, Hansa Mahatara, a health coordinator at the Adanchuli Rural Municipality in the district followed the order.
But he wonders how it will be possible to conduct mass vaccination in the rural municipality, which is three days walk from the district headquarters of Simikot.
Vaccines for babies there have had to be carried by people.
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All eyes on Foreign Minister Gyawali s Delhi visit for Nepal to procure Covid-19 vaccines Kathmandu Post
Kathmandu, Jan. 11 With the coronavirus vaccine becoming a political commodity , to use the words of a minister, the government is hoping that there will be a breakthrough in talks with India for Nepal to procure vaccines before Foreign Minister Pradeep Gyawali s Delhi visit later this week. We think that we will get vaccines for about half a million people from India as a goodwill gesture, said an official at the Prime Minister s Office familiar with the matter, who wished to remain anonymous because he was not allowed to talk to the media.