Nepal, June 2 -- Over 70,000 children in Kathmandu Metropolitan City, between the ages of six months to five years, have been deprived of measles-rubella vaccines.

While health facilities in most other districts across the country have either completed or are about to complete the inoculation drive- the first phase of which started on February 13, health facilities in Kathmandu have not even got started.

"We could not start the drive due to the lockdown," Narendra Bajracharya, chief of the health department at the Kathmandu Metropolitan City, told the Post.

Health facilities in Kathmandu were supposed to launch the month-long vaccination drive beginning April in the second phase. The nationwide lockdown began on March 24.

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