Government launching “anti-Covid-19 vaccination week” from 9 August

The government is launching “anti-Covid-19 vaccination week” from the 9 to 16 of August.

Speaking in the meeting of the Education and Health Committee of the Parliament on Thursday, State Minister for Health and Population Umesh Shrestha informed that the Ministry was preparing to make the vaccination week successful.

The State Minister also said 8 hundred thousand doses of the anti-Covid 19 vaccines to be received from Japan and 3 hundred thousand doses of the vaccine to be received from Bhutan would be administered to people during the period of a week.  

He added that the vaccines would arrive from Japan and Bhutan on Saturday. The AstraZeneca vaccines to be received from Japan would be administered to people who had already received the first dose of the Covishied vaccine.

State Minister Shrestha further informed that a procurement process of bringing in 6 million doses of Pfizer vaccines had been forwarded to inoculate children.

He said the government was holding talks with public health experts to tackle the possible third wave of the Covid-19.

Meantime, the Health Ministry has projected that the covid-19 infection rate would gradually decrease in Nepal from mid-August.

The Ministry has also estimated that Nepal could record 194 thousand additional Covid-19 cases from mid-July to mid-December.