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COVID-19 booster dose for all Nepalese, vaccine to minors aged between 5 to 11: Health Minister

KATHMANDU, Feb 9: Birod Kathiwada, Minister of Health and Population (MoHP), has maintained that the government will soon administer COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine to minors aged between 5 to 11. Minister Kathiwada also vowed to inoculate COVID-19 booster dose to all the eligible Nepali citizens. Receiving a memorandum from representatives of a student union close to CPN (Unified Socialist) on Wednesday, Minister Kathiwada also maintained to avoid vaccine shortage. “Vaccination centers have been set up at schools to inoculate vaccinations to the eligible population including students,’ Minister Kathiwada further maintained.

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COVID-19 booster dose to children from today

KATHMANDU, June 10: The government is administering COVID-19 booster dose to children from Friday. According to the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP), children aged between 12 to 17 years will be inoculated with the dose from today. All children who received their second COVID-19 vaccine three months ago are eligible for the booster dose, according to an official at the Health Ministry. Children can visit health institutions or vaccine centers nearby to receive the vaccine.

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France will start offering on Monday a fourth COVID-19 vaccination shot to people over 80 years old who have received their booster dose.

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Lalitpur Metropolitan City is administering Covid-19 vaccine booster dose from today.

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COVID-19 booster dose to be provided to fully vaccinated senior citizens

KATHMANDU, December 9: The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) is to administer a booster dose of COVID-19 vaccine to senior citizens, who are already vaccinated with full-dose of the vaccine. The Ministry, on the recommendation of the National Vaccine Advisory Committee, is going to provide a booster dose to senior citizens above 60 years. Chief of the Family Welfare Division of Department of Health Services, Dr Bibek Kumar Lal, shared that senior citizens above 60 years and already vaccinated with full-dose of vero cell, have started getting booster dose. At a regular press briefing organised at the Ministry on Wednesday, he said that the WHO has recommended administering a booster dose to those citizens, who have already received full-dose of vero cell vaccine and are above 60 years. The Advisory Committee has recommended a booster dose to all the people above 60 years and vaccinated with full-dose of vero cell after three months of receiving the vaccine in Nepal. RSS

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Pfizer says its vaccine booster restores full protection against COVID-19

WASHINGTON, Oct. 22: Pfizer and BioNTech announced Thursday that a large-scale trial of their COVID-19 vaccine booster showed it restored full protection against the disease. In a Phase 3 randomized, controlled trial, a Pfizer-BioNTech booster dose was administered to more than 10,000 individuals 16 years of age and older, who previously received the Pfizer-BioNTech primary two-dose series. It showed a relative vaccine efficacy of 95.6 percent when compared to those who did not receive a booster. These are the first efficacy results from any randomized, controlled COVID-19 vaccine booster trial. "These results provide further evidence of the benefits of boosters as we aim to keep people well-protected against this disease," said Albert Bourla, Pfizer chairman and chief executive officer. Last month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the booster shots for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, allowing a single booster dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine be administered at least 6 months after completion of the primary series to individuals 65 years of age and older, and 18 through 64 years of age with frequent institutional or occupational exposure to SARS-CoV-2.

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AstraZeneca vaccine to be administered as alternative to Covishield

KATHMANDU, June 7: The government is preparing to administer the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine as an alternative to the booster dose the Covishield vaccine. The government ‘s decision comes after the Serum Institute of India, the manufacturing company of Covishield vaccine and the COVAX Facility expressed inability to supply additional quantities of Covishield vaccines to Nepal for the time being. The Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP) is planning to administer the AstraZeneca vaccine for those waiting for the booster shot of Covishield as both vaccines are similar in nature and composition. Director of Family Welfare Division, Department of Health Services, Dr Taranath Pokhrel said that AstraZeneca will be provided to those receiving the first jab of Covishield as both vaccines were developed by the same company being based on the same formula and methodology and it would make no difference in giving the AstraZeneca as an alternative to the Covishield. The vaccination schedule is yet to be fixed. The booster or second dose is to be taken after 12-16 weeks of getting the first shot. \Around 1.4 million people above 65 years of age were provided the first shot of Covishield from 7th March to 23rd March. They are waiting for the final shot as the Serum Institute of India expressed its inability to supply one million doses of vaccines that Nepal had procured from the company for the time being in view of the increasing infections rate in India. So far in Nepal, the number of the population receiving the first shot of COVID-19 jab stands at 2.13 million while 691,184 have received the full course. The government is administering the China –manufactured Vero Cell to the people from 60-64 age group from tomorrow, Tuesday.

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