Covid 19

Nepal will be receiving the first consignment of booster dose of COVID-19 vaccines on February 13. It will be followed by another consignment on February 16.

According to Sagar Dahal, the chief of Child Health and Immunisation Section, Family Welfare Division, under the Department of Health Services, the government has been confirmed that it would get consignments of Covid booster doses on  February 13 and 16.

Earlier, the government had sought vaccines from the Global Alliances for Vaccines and Immunisation (Gavi) and was assured of the supplies. But the date for the arrival of vaccines was not fixed.

“In first phase, Nepal will receive 1.5 million doses of Pfizer bivalent vaccines in three instalments and the date for the third arrival is yet to be announced,” he said.

Recently, the government had urged the GAVI to ensure the supplies of three million booster dose COVID-19 vaccines under COVAX facility to Nepal in view of increasing infection of BF 7 variant of COVID-19 in close neighbours India and China.

At the moment the infection has slowed down in Nepal and till Tuesday, there were three active cases of COVID-19 across the country. But concerns remain, globally.

With RSS inputs

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