US drug regulator recommends a booster dose of Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which has been administered to over 1.5 million people in Nepal.

Infection rate doubles to 12 percent in the past 10 days. Experts call for testing in villages to stem spread.

The outbreak in wards 7, 8 and 9 of Krishnanagar Municipality in Kapilvastu, which has claimed four lives and sickened 900 people, has yet to come under control.

Officials say the shots will be given from 22 hospitals across the country to people with compromised immunity.

E. coli bacteria have also been detected in the water samples of the disease-hit areas.

Supplementation drives have reduced deaths among children, health experts say.

If approved, it will be the third Covid-19 vaccine overall to receive nod for third-phase trial.

Covid-19 pandemic response should not overshadow the risk of other diseases, public health experts say.

The ministry had planned to raise the vaccination coverage to 33 percent by Dashain. Health experts have advised ramping up the vaccination drive while the infection numbers are low.

Officials say the vaccine is being purchased under a non-disclosure agreement with World Bank funding.

Serum Institute on Saturday delivered 1 million vaccine doses Nepal had already paid for.

Two people have died of a diarrhoea-like outbreak that started on Monday night. Doctors suspect cholera, which the local laboratory failed to confirm.

In the last one week 59,976 polymerase chain reaction tests were performed throughout the country, which showed 5,452 positive results.

Government rolling out 800,000 Vero Cell doses this month to jab the unvaccinated population.

Excessive amounts of pesticides are used in cauliflower, yardlong beans and other off seasonal vegetables.