Infographics: Nepal’s COVID-19 vaccination status
Ratopati Infographics
KATHMANDU, Aug 15: Nepal had launched the vaccination drive against the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on January 27, last year.
Since then, a total of 1,868,425 people have received the first shot of the Covishield vaccine (manufactured by Serum Institute of India), Japanese-made COVID-19 AstraZeneca vaccine and Swedish AstraZeneca vaccine. Similarly, 774,533 people have received the second jab of the same vaccine. The government has been administering the second jab of AstraZeneca vaccine to those who had received the first dose before April, earlier this year.
According to the data released by the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP), 2,805,893 people have so far been inoculated with the first dose of Chinese-made Verocell vaccine while 1,255,411 have received both the doses.
Government data revealed that 1,273,634 shots of the US-manufactured Johnson and Johnson (J&J) vaccine have been administered throughout the country. Nepal had received 1.6 million of single-shot J&J vaccines from the United States under grant assistance.
See the province-wise data:
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