DAMAULI, DECEMBER 21
As many as 35,000 students are to be inoculated with Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at schools in Tanahun.
In collaboration with the District Health Office Tanahun, all 10 local levels are administering vaccines to school students. Vaccine Officer at the Health Office, Tanahun, Shanker Babu Adhikari informed that school students in the age group 12 to 17 would be provided with vaccination at their schools. He further shared that health workers at all local levels had been oriented to effectively run the vaccination campaign.
Myagde Rural Municipality of the district is administering vaccines to students of 13 schools on December 23. Inoculation centres have been set up in five schools for the purpose, informed Chief Administrative Officer of the rural municipality Narayan Prasad Adhikari. Likewise, Bandipur Rural Municipality is providing vaccines to students from December 21 to 23. Inoculation service will be provided to students of 15 schools through eight vaccination centres. Byas Municipality is preparing to run vaccination campaign on December 28.
It may be noted that the government has launched a nationwide vaccination campaign targeting children between 12 and 17 years of age in 57 districts from December 19 to January 1 for the first dose and from January 16 to 26 next year for the second dose.
The government has urged all and sundry to encourage children to get inoculated as the vaccines are fully safe.
A version of this article appears in the print on December 22, 2021, of The Himalayan Times.
