KATHMANDU, Feb 20: At the time when Nepal is doing well with COVID-19 vaccination drive, children aged between 5 to 11 years old are yet to receive their vaccine. However, the government has already announced the vaccination for this age group.
According to the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP), as many as 8.4 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines will be required to fully vaccinate this population.
Similarly, of 3,405,455 children aged between 12 to 17, 88 percent of this age group have received their first dose and 65 percent have been fully vaccinated against the disease.
Likewise, the Health Ministry has urged people older than 18 years who had received both doses of COVID-19 vaccine six months ago to get booster shots. So far, as many as 867,845 people have received the COVID-19 booster doses in the country.
How many doses of vaccine is Nepal expecting?
According to Surendra Chaurasiya, chief of the supplies management department under the department of health service, as many as 4 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine are in the pipeline with China. Likewise, 6.2 million doses of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines are in the process of shipment by Gavi and the COVAX facility.
The government has set a target to have a fully vaccinated population older than 18 years by Mid-April, 2022.
How many vaccines do we have in storage?
The government has currently 8,265,000 doses of COVID-19 stored at the central and provincial level.
COVID-19 vaccine only after a month of recovery from COVID-19
In case of COVID-19 infection, The Health Ministry has urged to get vaccinated only after a month of recovery.
What is COVID-19 vaccination status of Nepal?
So far as many as 36,881,989 people have received COVID-19 vaccine in Nepal. Of them, 17,864,516 are fully vaccinated. Besides, as many as 8,349,628 people have received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine. As per this data, 60.5 percent of the total population of the country is fully vaccinated and 73.1 percent have received their first dose of the vaccine.
KATHMANDU, Jan 25: The Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital at Teku, Kathmandu is resuming the vaccination campaign from today.
Earlier, on Sunday, the hospital had postponed the vaccination against COVID-19 for a week after more than 50 health workers were infected with the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
The Director of the Hospital, Dr. Manisha Rawal informed that the vaccination drive is all set to resume at the hospital after the Health Section of Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) and the Nepal Red Cross Society agreed to provide human resources for it.
The vaccination drive will begin at 10:00 AM today.
The hospital has been providing first, second and booster doses of COVID-19 vaccines.
KATHMANDU, December 28: The government has halted COVID-19 vaccination drive for children aged between 12 to 17 years old due to shortage of syringe in the country.
Earlier, the government had announced to inoculate COVID-19 vaccine to children of eight districts including Kathmandu, Bhaktapur and Lalitpur from today.
The vaccination drive will soon begin once the syringe shortage is resolved, according to the Health Ministry.
The government has already begun administering Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to children of 57 districts a week ago.
KATHMANDU, November 24: The government has made it mandatory for travellers to possess COVID-19 vaccination card either to travel to India or to enter Nepal.
The COVID-19 vaccination card is mandatory to enter in both countries, according to the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP).
Dr Roshan Pokharel, Secretary at the MoHP and Vinay Mohan Kwatra, Indian Ambassador for Nepal signed a Memorandum of Understanding for reciprocal recognition of COVID vaccination certificates to significantly ease the travel woes for fully vaccinated people from the two neighbouring countries.
In a new study Dr Victoria Male, a reproductive specialist at Imperial College London, has said that a link between menstrual changes after COVID-19 vaccination is plausible and should be investigated.
KATHMANDU, July 19: Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has inaugurated the anti COVID-19 vaccination campaign organized at Gokarneshwar Municipality-6 based the National Disabled Association Centre.
Prime Minister Deuba on the occasion said that managing the anti COVID-19 vaccines to all Nepalese was the first priority of the government.
The US government supported Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines are being administered from today in different parts of the country and the Prime Minister launched it.
On the occasion, the mayor at the Municipality Santosh Chalise shared that the 350 disabled people at the Khagendra Navajivan Centre are being administered the anti-COVID-19 vaccines.
The Municipality has shared that the vaccination programme is underway at Chamunda and Sahayogi secondary school vaccination centres.
