Vaccination centre to be established in every ward of KMC

KATHMANDU : The Kathmandu Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) is to set up vaccination centre in every ward of the metropolis for the next round of COVID-19 vaccination.

 The government has announced to inoculate vaccines to people aged between 60 to 64 years.

The KMC has written to the ward vaccine coordination committee to assign the vaccination centre and report accordingly.

A meeting of the district health office and KMC urban health and food regulation department on Friday decided to set up a vaccination centre in every ward of the metropolis.

The first dose of Vero Cell vaccines received under grant from China will be administered to the people of the target age group. Earlier, frontline workers, citizens above 65 years of age, and those between 18 to 59 years were vaccinated.