Govt. permits for clinical trial of poliovirus

By TRN Online, Kathmandu, Dec. 7: The government has decided to permit clinical trial of the vaccine against poliovirus in Nepal.

A meeting of the Council of Ministers held on Tuesday decided to this effect, said Gyanendra Bahadur Karki, government spokesperson and Minister for Communication and Information Technology, at a press meeting on Wednesday.

“The government has decided to allow the clinical trial of the polio vaccine in the country,” he said at the press meeting held to make public the Cabinet decisions.