KATHMANDU: The government is going to start the second phase of vaccination against coronavirus from Monday.
Spokesperson at the Ministry of Health, Dr. Jageshwor Gautam, said that embassies and UN agencies staff and journalists have been given priority for the second phase of vaccination.
According to him, the second phase of the vaccination will be given at Civil Hospital, Teaching Hospital, Martyr Ganga Lal Hospital, and Patan Hospital in Lalitpur.
The ministry is preparing to vaccinate them from tomorrow to Friday.
A press certificate issued by the Department of Information has been made mandatory for journalists to be vaccinated.
Less than half of the target got inoculated with the coronavirus vaccines in the first phase of the vaccination drive launched by the government.
The Ministry of Health and Population was preparing to vaccinate 430,000 people against the coronavirus till Friday.
However, the ministry had added one more day to the first phase of the campaign after only 171,000 people were vaccinated in that period.
As of Saturday evening, the last day of the vaccination campaign, about 200,000 people had been vaccinated against the pandemic, according to the ministry.
The vaccination campaign against COVID-19 had started last Wednesday, exactly one year after the start of COVID testing in Nepal.
In the first phase of the campaign, health workers working on the frontline, ambulance and hearse drivers, women health volunteers, inmates, airport and checkpoint staff, and security personnel were vaccinated.
Nepal had received one million ‘Covishield’ vaccines as assistance from India.
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