KATHMANDU: The second phase of the coronavirus vaccination campaign is ending on Saturday.
All the district-based government employees, employees of public corporations, banks, and financial institutions, district-based journalists, people’s representatives, staffs of local levels, security personnel deputed at border security posts are being vaccinated as per the campaign.
So far, more than 340,000 people have been inoculated in Nepal, according to the Ministry of Health.
The government has a plan of vaccinating 72 percent of the total population.
Among this population, the Ministry vaccinated only the persons under the first priority out of the three percent of the total population from January 27 to February 6.
The Government of India had provided one million vaccines to Nepal under grant assistance. Similarly, the Government of China is also providing 500 thousand doses of vaccines against COVID-19.
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