800,000 doses of Vero Cell Covid-19 vaccines purchased from China arrives in Nepal
Of four million doses of the Vero Cell Covid-19 vaccines that Nepal recently purchased from the Sinopharm company of China, 800,00 doses have arrived in Kathmandu on Friday morning.
The Kathmandu Metropolitan City has said the vaccination with the first dose of the Vero Cell scheduled to be administered today was brought to halt due to the lack of vaccines.
The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has prepared eight more inoculation centers to give the first jab of Vero Cell vaccine against COVID-19 from today.
LALITPUR, July 30: First dose of Vero Cell vaccine against COVID-19 has been provided in all wards of Lalitpur Metropolitan City for three days from today. Citizen above 45 years would be administered the vaccine at vaccination booth of every ward.
Chief Administrative Officer, Ganesh Aryal, said, "Preparation has been made to administer the Johnson & Johnson vaccine on coming Monday."
According to Godavari municipality, citizens above 50 years, lecturers of colleges, school principals, teachers, staffs, drivers and helpers of public vehicles as well as disabled persons under 'A' and 'B' categories would be innoculated with Vero Cell vaccine in the municipality.
Similarly, Mahalaxmi municipality has started providing first dose of Vero Cell vaccine to the citizens above 50, who missed the first dose of Vero Cell vaccine, from Thursday till today.
However, vaccine against COVID-19 would be administered on coming Sunday and Monday at Konjyosom rural municipality of south Lalitpur.
LALITPUR, July 7: The booster dose of China-manufactured the anti-COVID-19 vaccine, Vero Cell, is being administered in Lalitpur district on coming Friday and Saturday. The people from 60-64 age groups who have received the first dose of the vaccine (Vero Cell) are eligible to get the final shot, the District Public Health Office, Lalitpur said.
Office chief Dr Khageshwor Gelal said those already receiving the first dose and waiting for the final shot are requested to visit the accessible vaccination centres on July 9 and 10 with the vaccine card and a biometric identity card.
The vaccine was procured from the northern neighbour.
Meantime, the Godavari municipality has scheduled the vaccination programme at all its 14 wards on Friday. The vaccine will be available at all health posts in the wards, Kitini of Taukhel and Saraswoti Secondary School, Anandawan Hospital and the Ward-11 office as well, it is said.
KATHMANDU, July 6: The Kathmandu Metropolitan City has determined 12 places for administering second dose of Vero Cell vaccine.
Senior citizens from 60-64 years who have already been vaccinated with its first dose will be given the second dose jabs. The second dose of Vero Cell would be given till July 8 from today.
Bir Hospital, Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Civil Hospital, Shukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital, Paropakar Maternity and Women’s Hospital, Nepal Police Hospital, Birendra Sainik Hospital, Shankarapur Hospital, Himal Hospital, Om Hospital and Research Centre, Chhatrapati Free Clinic and Janamaitri Hospital, Balaju, have been fixed as vaccination centres.
Chief of KMC Urban Health Department, Hari Bahadur Kunwar said the senior citizens who have already been vaccinated with first dose of Vero Cell could reach the vaccination centre convenient to them and get the second dose vaccine.
They have to mandatorily bring first dose vaccination card along with them for the same. The KMC had operated vaccination programme from 32 centres during first dose vaccination programme.
Nepal has received 800,000 doses of Vero Cell Covid-19 vaccines from China as a grant on Tuesday. This is the first lot of the one million doses that Chinese President Xi Jinping announced to give to Nepal last week.
After failing to receive one million doses of the purchased Covishield Covid-19 vaccines from India on time, Nepal has launched another initiative to buy two million Vero Cell Covid-19 vaccines from China.
KATHMANDU, May 16: The government has started providing the second dose of Vero Cell vaccine against Covid-19 in Kathmandu from today.
The District Office, Kathmandu earlier issued a public notice, urging the people belonging to 18-59 age group who had got the first-dose shots to get the second one.
The vaccine is available at all 11 municipalities in the district till May 28 and the beneficiaries of the first-dose could visit nearby vaccination centers for the booster dose, said Office Public Health Administrator Buddhi Bahadur Khadka.
Those who were vaccinated within April 7-10 could get inoculated today while those who were administered the vaccine within April 11-12 could get their second dose on May 17.
Similarly, May 18 is slated for those who received the vaccine within April 13 to 15 and those who got inoculated on within April 16 to 17 could get vaccinated on May 19.
Likewise, May 20 is slated for those receiving vaccine within April 18 to 19 while May 21 for those getting vaccinated within April 20-23. Those receiving vaccine within April 24-25 can get their booster dose on May 22. May 23 is slated for those vaccinated on April 26.
May 24 is scheduled to give second dose to those getting their first one on April 27 and May 25 is for those getting their first dose on April 28.
The first dose of the China-manufactured Vero Cell was administered within April 7-28.
