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With storage facilities filled, Nepal urges COVID-19 vaccine providers to delay shipments to avoid logistic issues

KATHMANDU, December 20: At the time when the poor and underdeveloped nations are unable to get proper access to COVID-19 vaccines, Nepal has urged the COVID-19 vaccine providers including COVAX facility to delay their shipments after the storage facilities of the country is filled with the shipments of large number of vaccines at the same time. The government has delayed the shipment of 9,870,500 doses of Covishield vaccines which were scheduled to arrive on Monday as 1,201,887 doses of Verocell vaccines are arriving in the country on the same day, according to the Logistic Management Section under the Department of Health Service. In the next few days, Nepal is scheduled to receive millions of doses of Verocell, Covishield and Pfizer vaccines. Even if the officials at the Logistic Management Section are maintaining that there is no immediate problem in logistics and storage, it is almost certain that the country is likely to have logistical issues, including storage if the vaccination management is not carried out effectively. The country has begun administering additional doses of vaccine to elderly and the Pfizer vaccine to children aged between 12 to 17 recently.   

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2.4 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine arrive in Nepal for children aged between 5 to 11 years

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Govt begins administering additional COVID-19 doses to elderly

KATHMANDU, December 16: The government has begun administering additional doses of COVID-19 vaccine to people older than 60 years old. The National COVID-19 Vaccination Advisory Committee has already recommended the government to administer the additional doses to elderly, according to Chairman of the committee, Dr Ramesh Kanta Adhikari. Those elederly who had received two shots of Verocell vaccine will receive an additional dose to boost their immunity.  Likewise, the shots will also be administered to people with compromised immunity who have already received both shots of the vaccine, according to Sagar Dahal, chief of the Family Welfare Division. “The government has already begun administering the additional doses of COVID-19 vaccines from some of the vaccination centers in the Kathmandu Valley,” Dahal added. Similarly, the government has decided to inoculate the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to children aged between 12 to 17 from December 19 to 29. The vaccination will be administered in schools in 57 districts across the country. Also, the government will soon begin administering booster doses of COVID-19 to the public once the 50 percent of total eligible population receives at least one shot of COVID-19 vaccine.  So far, 47 percent of the total eligible population has been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 vaccine in the country. To maintain vaccine equality, the World Health Organization has prohibited the inoculation of booster doses before administering COVID-19 vaccine to at least 50 percent of the total eligible population. So far, Nepal has administered COVID-19 vaccine to as many as 20,995,536 people. Of them, 19,629,621 have received their first shots while 93,65,915 have received both shots, according to the Ministry of Health and Population.

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Government starts providing COVID-19 vaccine to all above 18

KATHMANDU, November 22: The government has started providing COVID-19 vaccine to all people above 18 years of age. Prior to this, the vaccination campaign was focused on the target groups, but now it is available for al. Joint Spokesperson at the Ministry of Health and Population, Dr Samir Kumar Adhikari said the government has decided to provide vaccines to all above 18 as the supplies are regular. He urged all the eligible people who were missed in the previous vaccination campaigns to visit the nearby vaccinations centers and get the shot. The government has a target of vaccinating one-third of the population by coming mid-January and 21.07 million by coming mid-April. To date, 30 percent of the total population has been given the first dose of vaccine while the population receiving the full-course is 26 percent. Kathmandu District Health Office Chief Shambhu Kafley said the vaccine is available at five centers: Birendra Military Hospital, Nepal police Hospital, Shahid Memorial Hospital, Kalanki; Bayodha Hospital, Balkhu; at Lhotse Building in New Buspark, Gongabu; and the Herbs Processing Center, Jadibuti in Kathmandu. ---

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1.2 million doses of Vero Cell arrived in Nepal

An additional 1 million 20 thousand doses of COVID-19 vaccine has arrived in Nepal from China on Wednesday.

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China to provide two million COVID-19 vaccines to Nepal

China will provide additional two million doses of COVID-19 vaccine to Nepal.

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Nepal to get Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine from China

The govt of China has agreed to grant 1 million doses of the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine to Nepal, a senior Nepali official said Wednesday.

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Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines gets approval for emergency use among children in Nepal

KATHMANDU, September 12: The Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine has been granted approval for emergency use against the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Nepal. The Department of Drugs Administrations (DDA) has granted the approval to administer Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines among childrens in Nepal. “The DDA has granted permission to distribute Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines through the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP),” said Narayan Prasad Dhakal, Director General of the department. “The government can now procure the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines and administer it among childrens.” The government has begun preparations to administer Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines to children who are more than 12 years old. Nepal is scheduled to receive 100,000 doses of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines in a few days through the COVAX facility. So far, along with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, Covishield, Vero Cell, J & J and Astrazeneca vaccines have been given approval for emergency use against COVID-19. (With inputs from Annapurna Post)

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4.8 mln people inoculated with COVID-19 vaccine in past five weeks

KATHMANDU, August 21: Over 4.8 million people were inoculated with the COVID-19 vaccines since President of Nepali Congress, Sher Bahadur Deuba became the Prime Minister of Nepal, according to the Ministry of Health and Population. As of Thursday, as many as 4,811,733 people have received COVID-19 vaccine in the country since the takeover of the government by PM Deuba. Prior to this as many as 3.6 million people were vaccinated against COVID-19. With this, the number of people receiving the vaccines against COVID-19 has reached 8,520,421, according to the health ministry. Nepal is currently administering COVID-19 vaccine to 150,000 people in a day on average. Of 8,520,421 people, 494,523 have received their both doses of COVID-19 vaccine which accounts for 13 percent of the total population of the country. While 16.8 percent of the total population have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine. Before Deuba's tenure, only 3.9 percent of the population had received both doses of COVID-19 vaccine while the percent of people receiving their second doses was 9.1 percent. The number of people receiving COVID-19 vaccines has almost doubled in the past five weeks.  The government has projected to administer COVID-19 vaccine to 33 percent of the total population by mid-October and vaccinate all the eligible population by mid-April next year.

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Japanese-made AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Kathmandu

Japanese-made AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Kathmandu KATHMANDU, Aug 7: The Japanese-made AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Kathmandu on Saturday.  Ambassador of Japan to Nepal, Kikuta Yutaka attended the hand-over ceremony at the Tribhuvan International Airport with State Minister of Health and Population Umesh Shrestha, Joint Secretary of North East Asia Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lok Bahadur Thapa, Representative of UNICEF Nepal, Elke Wisch and WHO Representative to Nepal, Dr Rajesh Sambhajirao Pandav.  This vaccine donation from Japan for Nepal through the COVAX facility was announced by  Motegi  Toshimitsu, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan on 13 July. Remaining half of 1.6 million doses pledged by Japan will be shipped to Kathmandu shortly,according to the Embassy of Japan in Nepal.

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