Focused COVID-19 Media Monitoring, Nepal (October 21, 2021)
EMERGING THEME(S)
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Nepal recorded 535 new COVID-19 cases, 13 deaths on October 20
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Nepal to receive 100,620 doses of Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine by October-end
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Talk about COVID-19 vaccine booster dose is not relevant in a country where 67.4 per cent of the target population is waiting to get the vaccine: Dr Sher Bahadur Pun; Finance Minister Janardan Sharma has said COVID-19 vaccine needs to be available as global public property in Least Developed Countries and Landlocked Developing Countries