Frontline workers to be administered third COVID-19 jab from next week

KATHMANDU, Jan 8: The government is preparing to administer the third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine to frontline workers. 

According to Dr Roshan Pokharel, secretary at the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP), frontline workers including medical professionals and security personnel and senior citizens of more than 60 years of age will be inoculated with the third dose of the vaccine against the infectious disease. 

Similarly, those with poor immune systems will also get the additional jab. 

Vaccinating the senior citizens and those with poor immune systems will begin from the third week of this month, according to Dr Pokharel. 

“The additional dose is being administered in view of the possible outbreak of the third wave of the disease,” he added.