Nepal, Jan. 19 -- When the District Health Office in Humla directed local health offices to send a list of health workers and female community health volunteers working under them for Covid-19 vaccination programme, Hansa Mahatara, a health coordinator at the Adanchuli Rural Municipality in the district followed the order.

But he wonders how it will be possible to conduct mass vaccination in the rural municipality, which is three days' walk from the district headquarters of Simikot.

Vaccines for babies there have had to be carried by people.

In preparation for mass vaccination, Nepal's drug regulator has granted emergency use approval for Covishield, a vaccine manufactured in India, just as it has received assurances from the country t...