Nepal starts inoculating teenagers with anti-COVID Vaccines

Updated:4 years, 7 months ago

Kathmandu (Nepal), Nov 23, 2021, (ANI): Teenagers from 12 and below 18 years stood in line to get jabbed as government rolled the US donated Pfizer vaccine for teenagers or adolescents. Hundreds of students studying in Secondary and Higher Secondary level of schools stood in line sun basking waiting for their turn to be inoculated overcrowding vaccination centers across Nepal. With surplus vaccine on the stock which fits the vulnerable population of nation, the government decided to vaccinate healthy children aged between 12 and 17 from Sunday. In Kathmandu Valley, vaccines are being administered from Bir Hospital, Army hospital, Civil Hospital, Patan Hospital, Bhaktapur Cancer Hospital, Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, ShahidGangalal National Heart Centre and ShahidDharmabhakta National Transplant Centre Bhaktapur. Nepal plans to inoculate around 78 percent of its 30 million population for which it needs about 40 million doses of double shot vaccines by early 2022. Nepal so far has received 23,163,930 doses of Covid-19 vaccines–Vero Cell, AstraZeneca, Janssen and Pfizer-BioNTech.

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