Nepal vaccinates 1.4% of the population against Covid-19

Kathmandu, February 24

The government says it has been successful in vaccinating 1.4 per cent of the country’s total estimated population against Covid-19 by giving Covishield jabs to the first-priority target group.

From January 27 till now, 429,705 people were vaccinated and it was 1.4 per cent of the Central Bureau of Statistics’ projected population of the country (30 million and 378,055), according to the government.

The Department of Health Services under the Ministry of Health made public the data of vaccinated people so far on Wednesday.

According to the data, 85.65 per cent of the first-priority group have been vaccinated so far.

In detail, the following people have been vaccinated:

Group	Dates	Vaccination centres	Target	Achievement	Achievement rate
Health workers and frontliners Journalists and diplomatic agency staff	January 27-February 6 February 8-12	186 3	221,719	185,865 3,480	85.40%
Government staff and local elected representatives	February 14-22	222	285,887	240,360	84.08%
Total			507,606	429,705	85.65%