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The government has been facing difficulties in achieving its goal to administer the Covid-19 vaccine to all the people.

Though the government had planned to vaccinate all the citizens by March this year, it has been able to administer both doses of vaccine to only 42.7 percent people.

Instead of giving continuation to the regular vaccination drive, the government has launched a booster dose campaign.

So far, 129.66 million people across the country have received both doses of vaccine against Covid-19.

The Ministry of Health and Population said that only 42.7 percent of the total population of 30,376,055 have been fully vaccinated.

The Ministry said that 16,289,425 people have taken their first dose of the vaccine.

Similarly, the government has administered booster doses to 168,939 people. Nepal has so far received 40,388,840 doses of vaccine from various companies. Of them, the government has already used 29,424,756 doses of vaccine.

COVID-19 cases are increasing at an alarming rate in Nepal of late, with 10,000 new cases reported on average each day. Most of the infected people are staying in home isolation.

According to the statistics of the Ministry of Health and Population, more than 80,000 people are staying in home isolation. The government, however, is unaware of these people.

Many people, who have difficulty in breathing or have low oxygen levels, are still staying in home isolation.

The government has not reached out to the people to inquire about their health conditions.

Though the government has been chanting slogans about telemedicine, the implementation is almost zero.

“I have been staying in home isolation for the past two days. Neither the ward nor the government has said anything to me,” Ramila Pathak said.

Notwithstanding the number of Covid-19 cases are surging, the government has not conducted contract tracing of the people who came in contact with the infected persons.

In addition to that, the government has not given much attention to the people staying in home isolation.

Dr Krishna Paudel, Director at the Epidemiology and Disease Control Division, urged the general public to contact the government’s hotline numbers 1133 and 1115 if they feel any difficulties while staying in home isolation.

Nepal received over 1.6 million doses of Modern vaccine on Monday.

According to the Ministry of Health and Population, Nepal received 1,660,000 doses of Moderna vaccine today.

The government procured the vaccine through the COVAX facility with financial support of the World Bank. 

The Ministry said that  2.34 million doses of Moderna vaccines will arrive in Nepal on Tuesday.

Nepal recorded 10, 319 new Covid-19 cases and four deaths on Monday.

According to the Ministry of Health and Population, 21, 201 tests were conducted across the country.

As many as 2,540 infected people have been recovered from the disease.

There are 82,550 active cases in the country.

Similarly, the Kathmandu Valley recorded 4,676 cases today. As many as 3,634 infections were logged in Kathmandu alone. Likewise, Lalitpur recorded 5877 and Bhaktapur 455 cases.

The number of people infected with coronavirus in the country has reached 1,033,636 while the death toll climbed to 11,659.