{"id":152002,"date":"2021-11-15T14:51:51","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T06:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=152002"},"modified":"2021-11-15T15:08:30","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T07:08:30","slug":"nepal-starts-vaccinating-nationals-aged-under-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=152002","title":{"rendered":"Nepal Starts Vaccinating Nationals Aged Under 18"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KATHMANDU, Nov 15 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8211; The Nepali government started vaccinating its population aged below 18 with COVID-19 vaccines yesterday, said a senior official from the Ministry of Health and Population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We have started vaccinating people aged 12 and above with the Pfizer vaccine starting from Sunday,&#8221; Sagar Dahal, chief of the National Immunisation Programme under the ministry, told Xinhua. &#8220;It is for the first time that we vaccinate people aged under 18.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He made it clear that only those with morbid health conditions, like heart disease and diabetes would be administered with the Pfizer vaccine in the first phase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After receiving 100,640 doses of the Pfizer vaccine last month, under the global COVAX initiative, the Nepali government started vaccinating the younger population with the U.S.-made jabs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dahal said, the government is planning to vaccinate 40,000-45,000 people with the available vaccine. &#8220;The second dose of the vaccine will be provided in a month,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Health Ministry, the vaccination drive is being run in 24 hospitals across the country and will last till Nov 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By yesterday afternoon, 8.82 million of Nepal&#8217;s 30 million population have received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccines, while 7.55 million have been fully vaccinated, the ministry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Nepali government aims to vaccinate all the population by mid-Apr next year.&#8211; NNN-XINHUA <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KATHMANDU, Nov 15 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8211; The Nepali government started vaccinating its population aged below 18 with COVID-19 vaccines yesterday, said a senior official from the Ministry of Health and Population. &#8220;We have started vaccinating people aged 12 and above with the Pfizer vaccine starting from Sunday,&#8221; Sagar Dahal, chief of the National Immunisation Programme under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":152006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,198],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152002"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/152006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}