Nepal vaccination drive tardy
Only around 18.6 percent of the people the Nepalese government targeted to vaccinate under the first phase of the COVID-19 inoculation drive have received their shot until the fifth day of the campaign, which officials aimed to complete within 10 days
Only around 18.6 percent of the people the Nepalese government targeted to vaccinate under the first phase of the COVID-19 inoculation drive have received their shot until the fifth day of the campaign, which officials aimed to complete within 10 days.
As authorities scramble to step up the pace of vaccinations, of the 430,000 frontline health workers and essential workers who were supposed to get inoculated in the first phase, only 88,007 have done so so far, officials said. Experts say that the numbers indicate that it may take years for all eligible people to get the vaccine.
“It is easier said than done,” Dr Baburam Marasini, former director at the Epidemiology and Disease Control Division, told the Post. “Ongoing drive shows our capacity. It may take years to administer vaccines to all eligible people using the existing system.”
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