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Kathmandu, Sept 27: The targeted groups will get fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as per the government’s goal. The government has set the target of immunizing one-third of the targeted groups by October 17, 2021.
Accordingly, 30 per cent of the target population has been given the first dose of jabs while 28 per cent has received the full dose.
Sagar Dahal, Chief of the Department of Health Service, Family Welfare Division, Child Health and Immunization Section, said that the target group would be fully immunized until October 17.
“We had said we will vaccinate 33 per cent of the targeted groups until the end of Asoj (17 October). We have been conducting the vaccination programme on a daily basis accordingly. We will vaccinate 33 per cent of the targeted groups by October 17,” he said.
Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba had declared soon after his appointment as the Prime Minister on June 13 that the government has kept COVID vaccination in first priority and 33 per cent of the targeted groups would be given the shots by October 17.
In line with this declaration, the government has adopted the policy of bringing the vaccines on a grant from countries supplying the vaccines on grant and even by purchasing from China and India.
The government has the target to immunize 71.6 per cent or a total of 21 million 756 thousand 763 people above 18 years of age. It has been stated that 33 per cent of the targeted population would be immunized by October 17, two-thirds of the targeted population by January 14, 2022, and all the targeted population by April 13, 2022.
The Ministry of Health and Population has stated that the pandemic can be contained if at least 60 per cent of the country’s population is vaccinated.
The Kathmandu Valley has the highest number of people vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus.
-TRN Online
