Govt administering COVID-19 vaccine to flood victims of Sindhupalchowk from Thursday

KATHMANDU, August 26: The government has begun inoculating COVID-19 vaccine to floods and landslide victims from Thursday.

Vaccines against COVID-19 have been made available for 20,000 flood survivors of Helambu-Melamchi above the age of 18. Senior Public Health Officer Durga Dutta Chapagain shared that the jabs have been dispatched to the vaccination centres so that they can be administered to the general public from today. 

He further informed that 8,000 doses of vaccines were already sent for Panchpokhari Thangpal Rural Municipality, 7,000 for Melamchi Municipality and 5,000 for Helambu Rural Municipality. The devastating floods and landslides this year had caused damages to the lives and properties of all three local levels of Sindhupalchowk.