Some 28,732 frontline workers receive shot of Covishield today

 Some 28,732 frontline workers received a shot of ‘Covishield’ across the country today, the second day of the vaccination drive against Covid-19.

Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli inaugurated the vaccination drive against Covid-19 across the country yesterday morning.

According to the spokesperson at the Health Ministry Dr Jageshwar Gautam, “Some 3,847 in Province 1, some 2,174 in Province 2, some 11,461 in Bagmati Province, some 4,853 frontline workers in Gandaki Province, some 2,303 in Lumbini Province, some 1,677 in Karnali Province, and some 2,417 in Sudur Pashchim Province received the vaccine against Covid-19 today.”

“The government is inoculating at least 450,000 frontline workers fighting against Covid-19 in the first phase of the vaccination drive,” he said, adding that none of the persons receiving the vaccines have shown any signs of health complications.

India has – under its neighbor first policy’ gifted 1 million doses of Covishield, AstraZeneca-Oxford University vaccine manufactured under license by Serum Institute of India.

On the first day, yesterday, the government inoculated some 9,084 frontline workers across seven provinces. “Some 1,255 in Province 1, some 726 in Province 2, some 2,694 in Bagmati Province, some 1,843 in Gandaki Province, some 733 in Lumbini Province, some 751 in Karnali Province, and some 1,082 in Sudur Pashchim Province received the shot of Covishield vaccine yesterday,” Gautam informed, adding that the frontline workers – including health workers, sanitation workers, ambulance drivers, security personnel and volunteers serving at vaccination centers, people mobilized to manage dead bodies, women health volunteers, health workers and other government employees serving at the border check posts, people living in elderly homes and inmates and security personnel serving in various jails across the country – will get the priority in the first phase of the vaccination drive, according to the government policy.