COVID-19: Elderlies in Nepal wait for months to get inoculated

Aug 10, 2021

Kathmandu (Nepal), Aug 10 (ANI): Wait for Baburam Nagarkoti and Laxmi Nagarkoti is finally over as both the elderlies went to a nearby vaccination center to take the second dose of anti-COVID vaccine for which they had been waiting for more than four months. Suffering from paralysis along with prolonged illness of asthma, Baburam struggled to reach nearby vaccination center because of poor infrastructure. Gasping for breath on the way and back, it all got vanished for Baburam after he got the second dose of anti-COVID vaccine. The Nagarkoti couples have received their first dose of the anti-COVID vaccine earlier in March when the Himalayan Nation started its inoculation campaign after receiving jabs from India in the donation. Earlier on Friday, Bhutan delivered its surplus 230,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine under a reciprocity condition, at the request of the Nepal government. Japan also shipped 1.6 million doses of AstraZeneca to Nepal through COVAX, an international vaccine sharing scheme under United Nations. Nepal so far has received 10,526,270 doses of vaccine from various sources. Nepal so far has used Covishield, Vero Cell and Janssen, developed and manufactured by Johnson & Johnson to inoculate its population against Covid-19.