A little over 4 million doses of Vero Cell vaccine against COVID-19 will arrive in Nepal on Saturday from China. The government plans to inoculate people aged above 18 years with the vaccine. Dr Bibek Kumar Lal, Director at the Family Welfare Division, under the Department of Health Services, said that 4.4 million doses of […]
The ‘Vero Cell’ coronavirus vaccination drive of age 60-64 years old, which was postponed till further notice, is scheduled to resume at select hospitals in Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) on Monday. Earlier, the KMC had started the vaccination campaign from June 8 in all 32 wards which was later suspended on June 11 after three
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India began an inoculation drive for its 1.38 billion people in earnest in mid-January. Healthcare, frontline workers and the elderly were the first eligible, followed by people aged over 45 in April and then adults aged 18-45 in May. That last extension, covering around 43% of the population, proved to be a crunch point. Following
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The government has halted the ongoing administration of the China-made Vero Cell vaccine in Kathmandu citing non-availability of enough jabs. The government, with the coordination of the Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC), started administering Vero Cell vaccine to people between the ages of 60-64 years since Tuesday. As per the schedule released by the government, the
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Adults will now be able to claim a free marijuana joint when they receive a COVID-19 vaccine in Washington State of the United States of America. The promotion called “Joints for Jabs,” is part of the state’s push to increase vaccinations. Various states in the US, the hardest hit country in the world, have come
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The government has said it will provide the AstraZeneca vaccines as an alternative to the booster dose of Covishield vaccine. The government decided this after 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. Now,
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A charter plane of Nepal Airlines Corporation has landed in Kathmandu today afternoon with the vaccine provided by the Chinese government to Nepal as grant assistance. Out of the one million doses of vaccine grant announced by Chinese President Xi Jinping, 800,000 doses have arrived at the Tribhuwan International Airport in Kathmandu today. Nepal government
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The Confederation of Nepalese Industries (CNI) has drawn the attention of the government to make the purchase of vaccines a top priority as cases of coronavirus infection are surging daily. An emergency meeting of CNI on Monday called for immediate involvement of the private sector in the process to procure and distribute vaccines. The Confederation
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Citizens above the age of 65, who received their first dose of anti-COVID vaccine will be administered the second dose of coronavirus vaccine by mid-June. The first dose of Covishield vaccine was given to those over 65 years of age on March 7. The second dose should be given within 8 to 12 weeks of
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Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has kicked off the second phase of vaccination campaign against COVID-19 today onwards by getting himself inoculated against the virus. He received the jab at the Maharajgunj-based TU Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu today morning. The first phase of the vaccination campaign had begun on January 27 under which the government
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