Health and Population Minister Sher Bahadur Tamang says the government has put in priority sportspersons also as far as the Covid-19 vaccination drive is concerned.
Almost the entire country has been on lockdown for a month. While numbers are going down, experts say that the cases and deaths could have been avoided had Nepal been a bit proactive in procuring vaccines.
KATHMANDU: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has inaugurated the Covid-19 vaccination drive in Nepal from his official residence in Baluwatar.
Health and sanitation workers deployed in the frontlines will first receive the vaccines in the first phase of the campaign. Over 400,000 such frontline workers will be included in the initial stage.
The campaign has...
Dr Sagar Rajbhandari, director of Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital, Teku was the first of the frontline workers to receive the jab. Photo: ROSHAN SAPKOTA/RSS epal started vaccinating health and security workers against Covid-19 on Wednesday, using some of the 1 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccines donated by India on 20 January. Prime […]
