The Covid-19 epidemic, which began in late 2019, has claimed nearly 600,000 lives worldwide.The epidemic has caused a lot of economic and human damage. Many companies shut down, and millions lost their jobs. Many countries are taking various measures to protect the people from this epidemic and to prevent further deterioration of the economic situation.
“Data Taken from Ministry of Health and Population” Date /04 February 2021 (22 Magh 2077)
| Health Sector response to Covid -19 | ||||||||||||
| RT-PCR | RT- PCR | Total | Confirmed | Recovered | Deaths | People in | ||||||
| Test | Test/Million | Positive | Cases in | Quarantine | ||||||||
| Cases | Isolation | |||||||||||
| 2085573 | 70837 | 271602 | 2277 | 267292 | 2033 | 92 | ||||||
However, after the various clinical trials and research is being carried on far the development of drug and vaccine.
The Government of Nepal has approved the covid-19 vaccines developed by ‘Astra-Zeneca’ and Bharat Biotech named ‘Covishield’ and ‘Covaxin’ respectively. The Indian government provided 1 million vaccine to the Nepalese Government. In the first stage of vaccination the ‘Covidshield’ vaccine will be provided to 3% of total population. In the first phase of vaccination about 4 hundred and 30 thousand vaccine will be given to the people. In Nepal, 158,487 people were vaccinated against corona Kathmandu,22 January. This is the world’s largest vaccination program covering the entire country.
Covid-19 Summary ( Last 24 hour)
Total RT-PCR Test done 3878 
Recovered 227
Deaths in last 24 Hr 2
Confirmed cases 171
Female : 59
Male :112
The Vaccine has introduced in priority manner. In the first phase the vaccine is provided to healthcare workers
like Doctors, nurses and other medical staff both in government and private sectors. Because they treat and are in close contact with those who are infected with covid-19. Then it will be provided to police, armed forces, municipal workers and other departmental staffs. In Third phase, people above 50 years of age and those patient who have diabetes, hypertension and organ transplant will get the vaccine.After that, the vaccine will be given to healthy adults, teenagers and children. The central government is incurring the cost for vaccinating the core healthcare and frontier workers.
| Global COVID-19 Statictics | |||
| Total cases | Active Cases | Deaths | Recovered |
| 104,911,245 | 25,835,623 | 2,278,587 | 76,653,010 |
| 24.90% | 2.20% | 72.90% | |
| Source : http://www.covid-19-same.org/ | |||
| Updates of 3-02-2021 | |||
According to the Ministry of Health and Population, 21,754 people have been vaccinated in Province 1, 21,185 in Province 2 and 55,504 in Bagmati. Similarly, 17,267 people in Gandaki, 23,798 in Lumbini, 8,072 in Karnali and 10,907 in the far-western states have been vaccinated against corona. This is the world’s largest vaccination program covering the entire country. The indian government is providing additional 24 million doses of ‘Covidshield ‘vaccine among which the target of the government is to vaccinate 75% of total population.
Standards & technical guidelines regarding , Covid-19 in Nepal
COVID-19 Hotline Service 1133(24/7)/1115 (6am to 10 pm)
Web Portal https://Covid19.mohp.gov.np//https://heoc.mohp.gov.np
Official portal Community Search “MoHP” Nepal Covid-19’ on Viber to join the community
Social Media fb.com/mohpnep/fb.com/HEOCMOHP/fb.com/edcdnepal
Mobile Application Search “Hamro Swasthya” on Google Play store and Apple Store
