Kathmandu, Jan 18: The booster dose of COVID-19 is being administered to people working in the frontline in the Lalitpur Sub-Metropolitan City from Tuesday.

According to the Lalitpur Sub-Metropolitan City, the vaccination campaign to administer the booster dose to people working in the frontline has started from today till January 20.

As per the public notice of LMC booster dose is being given to people working in the frontline, which are listed as medical and non-medical people working in the health sector, woman health volunteers, refuse collectors, employees at the Tribhuvan International Airport, and people working in the public sector (employees at the government officers, banking employees, media personnel, drivers and collectors at the public buses) as well as corporations providing the communal service o people.

Along with this, people above 18 years suffering from chronic illness, such as active cancer, transplant recipients, immunodeficiency people, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-infected people, and people taking immunosuppressive while treatment can also get their booster dose of homologous vaccine if have crossed six months of administering a complete dose.