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Nepal likely to receive 1.5 million doses of J&J jab from COVAX


Nepal likely to receive 1.5 million doses of J&J jab from COVAX
Kathmandu Post
Kathmandu, July 6 If everything goes as planned, Nepal is most likely to get 1.5 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine next week under the COVAX facility, multiple officials at the Ministry of Health and Population confirmed.
COVAX, the international vaccine-sharing scheme backed by the United Nations, which has committed to providing 13 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine, sufficient to inoculate 20 percent of the 30 million population, has proposed the authorities to accept the single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
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A health worker inoculates a dose of the Vero cell COVID-19 vaccine in Bhaktapur, Nepal on Tuesday, June 8, 2021. After receiving 1 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine from china, the Nepal government has continued vaccination for the 60-64 age groups. (Photo by Rojan Shrestha/NurPhoto via Getty Images) ....

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COVID Is Crushing Nepal, From Remote Villages To Kathmandu To Mt. Everest


Originally published on June 4, 2021 1:27 pm
Editor s note: One of the photographs in this story, of a crematorium, could be disturbing to some readers.
When health workers finally arrived last month in the remote village of Namanta, up in the forested foothills of Nepal s Himalayas, residents hid in their homes.
They d been advised not to welcome strangers, who might spread the coronavirus. But it was already too late. Out of 64 households in the village, 30 of them had someone who was ill.
Those individuals hadn t been able to get tested though: The nearest coronavirus testing facility was a 3-hour walk away. Nobody who was sick could make it that far. ....

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