Kathmandu metropolis to launch COVID-19 vaccination campaign

Kathmandu: The Kathmandu metropolis has decided to launch a Covid-19 vaccination once again.

The metropolis would be targeting nine wards from coming August 6.

The vaccination will continue till August 9. According to Kathmandu Metropolitan City Office health department chief Ram Prasad Paudel, the campaign aims to vaccine individuals above 12 years of age.

The local government decided to conduct a vaccination campaign against the infectious disease as it found that some citizens here have not received even a single dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. It will be organized inwards no 6, 11, 14, 17, and 31 on August 6-7 and inwards no 12, 15, 19, and 32 on August 8-9.

‘It said 90 percent of citizens have received the first dose of the vaccine while 88 percent have got the second dose in Kathmandu and 43 percent are inoculated with the third dose and only six percent have taken the fourth dose,’ KMC Office vaccination section chief Dr. Abhiyan Gautam said.

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