This is how the vaccine against corona will be administered across the country

Kathmandu. The vaccine against Covid-19, which India has announced to provide as a grant to Nepal, is arriving in Kathmandu today. India on Wednesday announced a 1 million dose corona vaccine grant to Nepal.

According to the Ministry of Health and Population, the vaccine against Corona will arrive at Tribhuvan International Airport from an Air India flight today. At the airport, Indian Ambassador to Nepal Vinay Mohan Quatra will hand over the vaccine to the Ministry of Health.

The vaccines will be stored at the Department of Health Services in Teku. From there, the Department of Health Services is preparing to send vaccines to the state, district and local levels as per the need. The department is ready to deliver the vaccine to the local level through the vaccine van with cold chain.

Cold stores have been set up in Kathmandu, Biratnagar, Pathlaiya, Hetauda, Pokhara, Butwal, Nepalgunj, Surkhet and Dhangadhi. Sameer Kumar Adhikari informed. According to him, the vaccines will be administered through the hospitals that have reached the cold stores.

Necessary pre-training has been done for the health workers for vaccination and additional practice will be done as per the need. A joint spokesperson said that a simultaneous vaccination campaign would be launched in 77 districts. “The first phase of the vaccine coming from India is administered simultaneously from all 77 district hospitals,” he said.

The vaccine will be given to health workers, body managers, ambulance drivers, women’s health volunteers and cleaners deployed by local bodies.

A member of the vaccination expert group formed by the Ministry of Health, Dr. According to Jhalak Sharma Gautam, the government is ready to vaccinate 21.6 million people in Nepal. It is estimated that about 50 million doses of vaccine will be needed for that.

The Ministry of Health had earlier started collecting data on the number of health workers and frontline workers for the first phase of vaccination. Accordingly, the number of front line personnel in Nepal is around 900,000 and for that 2 million vaccines will be required to administer two doses (including the amount wasted).

In the second phase, senior citizens above 55 years of age and long-term patients will be vaccinated. The number of such groups is said to be 5.1 million in Nepal. In the third phase, the government plans to vaccinate 2.9 million people between the ages of 40 and 54 and the remaining 12.7 million people between the ages of 15 and 39. The Ministry of Health estimates that it will take about 10 to 15 days to start the vaccination after completing the work of transporting the vaccine.