The government has brought 377,000 Covid vaccines to administer as booster doses.
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Khotang, a hilly district in the Koshi Province, has prepared for administering a booster dose of COVID-19. The district-level Covid- 19 Vaccine Coordination Committee decided to give a booster dose to those who have already completed six months of receiving the first or both shots.
KATHMANDU, Dec 25: In the wake of increasing cases of the new variant of Covid-19 in neighbouring countries, the government has urged the general public to administer booster dose of Covid-19 vaccine for those who are yet to get the extra dose.
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Other researchers, including teams in the UK and the US, have been investigating nasal spray vaccines.
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The National Medical Products Administration of China granted CanSino approval for its inhaled vaccine to be used as a booster dose.
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Meanwhile, the latest Covid vaccine booster programme has begun in England, Wales and Scotland.
Infections are falling around the UK - but health bosses predict a resurgence of Covid and flu this autumn and winter.
They are urging those eligible to protect themselves from serious illness by being vaccinated against both.
JULY 28: The incident took place in a school in Sagar district where children were being given Covid-19 vaccines.
India's health ministry mandates a "one needle, one syringe, only one time" protocol for Covid-19 vaccines.
India has administered over 2.03bn Covid-19 vaccines so far.
Single-use disposable syringes are widely used in India to avoid the spread of deadly diseases like HIV. However, there have been multiple incidents in the past where a single syringe has been reused in hospitals due to a shortage of equipment.
Jitendra Rai, who was vaccinating the children, told the media that he was only given one syringe by the health department and he was just following orders.
Parents who had accompanied their children spotted the issue and reported it to the school authorities.
When state officials reached the school, Mr Rai was missing from the school and his phone was turned off.
The state's health department has registered a case of negligence against him. Meanwhile, it has also started an inquiry against the official responsible for dispatching equipment for the vaccination drive.
A spokesperson from the opposition Congress party has demanded that the state's health minister should resign over the incident.
India is the second country after China to have crossed the two-billion Covid vaccines mark. In July, the government announced a 75-day free Covid booster dose programme for all adults to mark India's 75th independence anniversary.
According to India's health ministry, 98% of adults have received at least one dose of the Covid vaccine, while 90% have been fully vaccinated.
On Wednesday, the country reported 18,313 daily cases for the past 24 hours and 57 Covid-related deaths.
With inputs from BBC.
