SURKHET: As many as 150,000 people have been inoculated in the districts of Sudurpaschim Province since the beginning of the vaccination drive some two months ago.
The Ministry of Social Development of Sudurpaschim Province said that a total of 149,579 people received the first jab of the vaccine against coronavirus in the past two months.
Frontline health workers, security personnel and individuals to be deployed in the ambulance and dead body carrying vehicles were vaccinated in the first phase, Ministry’s Spokesperson Narendra Singh Karki said.
Currently, senior citizens are receiving vaccines. All those inoculated ones in the first phase are asked to receive the second jab of the vaccine in the month of Baishakh, officials said.
The highest numbers of inoculated people are from Kailali, where 40,301 individuals received the first jab of the Covishield vaccine.
Likewise, a total of 24,864 people received the vaccine in Kanchanpur, 14,357 in Doti and 14,096 in Baitadi district.
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