Around one million children, above five years of age, have not received even a single dose of the vaccine in Nepal, The Kathmandu Post reported citing the country’s Ministry of Health and Population.
As per the Health and Population ministry, there would be around one million children above five years old who were deprived of Covid vaccination campaigns. While talking with reporters, Abhiyan Gautam, chief of the Immunisation Section at the Family Welfare Division under the Department of Health Services, said, “Hundreds of thousands of children throughout the country, who were below five years of age and were not covered by the Covid vaccination campaigns have now become eligible for the vaccine”.
“We have started preparations to bring pediatric doses of the vaccine for children of the said age group,” he added.
Meanwhile, children between 5 and 11 years were inoculated with pediatric doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine after the Covax facility, the UN-backed international vaccine sharing, supplied around 8.4 million doses last year, reported The Kathmandu Post.
