Nepal on Thursday received 1 million doses of the China-made Vero Cell vaccine from China. The government received 1 million doses Vero Cell vaccine produced by the Beijing Institute of Biological Products out of the agreed 59.36 million doses to be purchased with the loan assistance from the Asian Development Bank through COVAX cost-sharing facility. […]
Minister for Health and Population Birodh Khatiwada has said that the procured 10 million doses of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines will arrive from the United States of America soon. He added that preparations were underway to bring the vaccines for children aged above 12 years. Earlier, US government had provided 120,000 doses of Pfizer vaccines.
According to the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP), of the 71.6 per cent target population, 6,609,233 (30.4 per cent) people have received their first dose of the vaccine against COVID-19 and 6,036,401 (27.7 per cent) have received their full dose as of Sunday. In total, 102,301 people were vaccinated in the last 24 hours.
The government is all set to administer Vero Cell vaccines against COVID-19 Monday onward. The District Health Office, Kathmandu, will administer the jabs from 145 vaccination centers. Chief Public Health Administrator of the office, Badri Bahadur Khadka, said that as many as 32 vaccination centers had been designated in Kathmandu Metropolitan City, 10 in Kirtipur,
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The United States is communicating regularly with India in bilateral and multilateral channels to discuss the supply of COVID-19 vaccines and inquire about its timeline for restarting vaccine exports, a senior Biden administration official said. The global pandemic will be a key topic on Sept. 24, when U.S. President Joe Biden will host the first
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Nepal received 130,000 doses of COVID-19 Astra-Zeneca vaccines as grant assistance from the United Kingdom on Thursday. Earlier, during a meeting, Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and British Ambassador to Nepal Nicola Pollitt had discussed about vaccines and other assistance. Speaking at a meeting of the Education and Health Committee under the House of Representatives
As the government has failed to procure additional Covishield vaccines for second dose to the elderlies who’ve already had their first shot more than three months ago, black-marketing of jabs is reportedly gaining momentum in various parts of the country. According to news report published by BBC Nepali, some people living in Kathmandu admitted to
As many as 4 million Vero Cell vaccines purchased by Nepal Government from the Chinese company Sinopharm will be delivered within the next three weeks. The Foreign Affairs Advisor to the Prime Minister, Rajan Bhattarai, unveiled the schedule of three flights for vaccine supply on Sunday. The first batch of vaccines is set to arrive
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More than 350 doctors and medical workers have caught COVID-19 in Indonesia despite being vaccinated with Sinovac and dozens have been hospitalised, officials said, as concerns grow about the efficacy of some vaccines against more infectious variants. Most of the workers were asymptomatic and self-isolating at home, said Badai Ismoyo, head of the health office
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