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KATHMANDU: The government started vaccinating its population aged below 18 with COVID-19 vaccines from Sunday, according to the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP).
"We have started vaccinating people aged 12 and above with the Pfizer vaccine starting from Sunday," Sagar Dahal, chief of the National Immunisation Program under MoHP, told Xinhua. "It is for the first time that we vaccinate people aged under 18."
He made it clear that only those with morbid health conditions like heart disease and diabetes would be administered with the Pfizer vaccine in the first phase.
After receiving 100,640 doses of the Pfizer vaccine last month under the global COVAX initiative, the government started vaccinating the younger population with US-made jabs.
Dahal said the government is planning to vaccinate 40,000-45,000 people with the available vaccine. "The second dose of the vaccine will be provided in a month," he added.
According to the Health Ministry, the vaccination drive is being run in 24 hospitals across the country and will last till November 20.
The MoHA data showed that a total of 16,381,988 doses of anti-COVID vaccines have been administered in the country, as of Sunday. A total of 7,553,560 persons have been fully vaccinated while 8,828,428 persons have been administered the first dose of vaccines.
The government aims to vaccinate all the population by mid-April next year.
Source: RSS/Xinhua
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Published Date: November 15, 2021, 12:00 am
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