To the relief of foreign job sector, single-shot J&J vaccine being given to migrant workers Kathmandu Post
Kathmandu, July 20 In a last minute change of plans, the Ministry of Health and Population on Monday started administering the single-shot Janssen vaccine developed by Johnson & Johnson to migrant workers. The decision comes as some relief to the foreign employment sector, which has been hard hit by the pandemic.
Kathmandu Valley residents aged 50 to 54 were also administered the single-shot vaccine from Monday with the 1,534,850 doses of the jab the United States provided in grant assistance through the COVAX facility. The single-shot vaccine is also being given to disabled persons, refugees living in Nepal, and health officials and sanitation workers at health facilities.
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.
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Nepal on Tuesday received a consignment of 800,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines from China on grant basis as per the commitment made during talks between Presiden