Nepal’s PM to receive Covid-19 vaccine from India

New Delhi: Nepal’s Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli will receive the vaccination from Covid-19 on March 7, Sunday. The second phase of the inoculation drive will begin in the Himalayan Nation.

Oli will be receiving the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine at the Teaching Hospital at 10 AM.

“Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli will start the second phase of the vaccination campaign from Teaching Hospital, Maharajgunj at 10 AM today receiving the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine. Also, Nepal will receive 348,000 doses through Covax,” Health Minister Hridayesh Tripathi stated to ANI

The head of other constitutional bodies along with the Prime Minister will be receiving the ‘Made in India’ vaccine. Oli underwent kidney transplant surgery in 2020.

Earlier this year, Nepal has received one million vaccines of Covisheild from India and managed to procure two million vaccines from Southern neighbor of which one million are awaited. Serum Institute of India (SSI) developed the vaccine locally and it’s the only vaccine that is being administered in Nepal.

The Government of Nepal from Sunday is set to start the second phase of its vaccination drive targeting as many as 1.6 million senior citizens above 65 years of age. About 6,000 vaccination centers are set up across the country.

Likewise, people above 55 will be administered the vaccine against the disease in 15 districts in the mountainous region.
Nepal launched the first phase of the vaccination campaign on January 27 earlier this year and administered vaccines to the frontline workers.