End vaccine inequity

The state cannot rest unless the last unvaccinated citizen gets the jab.

here isn’t much that is particularly commendable about Nepal’s vaccination drive against the Covid-19 pandemic. More than a year after the state began inoculating its citizens, only 54 percent of the population has been fully vaccinated . If the initial phase of the vaccination drive faced hiccups owing to the state’s inability to procure enough doses, leading to a months-long gap between the first and second doses, the past few months, when vaccine doses have become easier to procure, have laid bare the state’s logistical ineptitude exposed by its failure to administer them quickly. Logistics, though, is not the only problem undermining the state’s vaccination drive.