4.8 mln people inoculated with COVID-19 vaccine in past five weeks

KATHMANDU, August 21: Over 4.8 million people were inoculated with the COVID-19 vaccines since President of Nepali Congress, Sher Bahadur Deuba became the Prime Minister of Nepal, according to the Ministry of Health and Population.

As of Thursday, as many as 4,811,733 people have received COVID-19 vaccine in the country since the takeover of the government by PM Deuba.

Prior to this as many as 3.6 million people were vaccinated against COVID-19. With this, the number of people receiving the vaccines against COVID-19 has reached 8,520,421, according to the health ministry. Nepal is currently administering COVID-19 vaccine to 150,000 people in a day on average.

Of 8,520,421 people, 494,523 have received their both doses of COVID-19 vaccine which accounts for 13 percent of the total population of the country. While 16.8 percent of the total population have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine. Before Deuba's tenure, only 3.9 percent of the population had received both doses of COVID-19 vaccine while the percent of people receiving their second doses was 9.1 percent.

The number of people receiving COVID-19 vaccines has almost doubled in the past five weeks.  The government has projected to administer COVID-19 vaccine to 33 percent of the total population by mid-October and vaccinate all the eligible population by mid-April next year.