Vaccination begins for third group, but experts say target will be missed again

Around 300,000 local representatives and staffers and those working at financial institutions are on the list, but without proper planning, it’s unclear if all will be covered.

When India delivered a million doses of vaccines against Covid-19 as a grant on January 21, the Nepal government announced that 430,000 health workers, sanitation workers and ambulance drivers, among other frontline workers who are most at risk of being infected, would be inoculated.