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3rd wave in 2 years
Daily reported Covid-19 cases and deaths since January 2020, when the first case was detected in Nepal.It was on 23 January 2020 that the first…
“All vaccines prevent severe Covid”
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIFollowing initial lab reports that AstraZeneca and VeroCell boosters afford lower or no protection against the new Omicron…
“Nepal has all the conditions for an Omicron surge”
The rapid spread of the new coronavirus variant Omicron across the globe has cast serious doubts about the efficacy of different Covid-19…
Living with Covid in 2022
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIIt has been two years since the coronavirus turned the world (and Nepal) upside down. Masks have become the norm, physical…
Do Nepalis need Covid booster shots?
Children aged 12-17 started getting inoculated with the Pfizer BioNTech Covid vaccine in Kathmandu on Monday. Photo: AMIT MACHAMASINot long ago,…
The statelessness pandemic
Legal theorists once consigned the idea of ‘statelessness’ to the realm of fiction, because they considered it to be impossible within the state…
Nepal’s glaring food gap
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIAlthough the undernutrition rate in Nepal has dropped dramatically in the past two decades, a quarter of its children still…
Donated ventilators gather dust in Nepal
When the second wave of the Delta variant ravaged Nepal in April-May this year, hospitals ran out of oxygen and ICU beds. The international…
The other pandemic: mental health
Children and young people across the world could feel the impact of Covid-19 on their mental health for many years even after the worst effects…
The jabs and jabnots
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIA post-graduate student of mechanical engineering Samita Rimal is completing her 14-day quarantine in a hotel in Montreal.…
Too early for Nepal to let its guard down
High school students sit for exams in Adarsha Azad College in Bhaktapur on Wednesday. Schools in Kathmandu Valley were all set to restart…
How Nepal must prepare for 3rd Covid wave
This is the second installment of a series by the Nepal-Johns Hopkins University Covid-19 Vaccine Advocacy Group. The first part titled ‘Once…
Vaccines or no vaccines, mask and distance
When Covid-19 cases started to fall last month and the government relaxed the lockdown, most public health experts warned that it was premature…
Nepal’s uneven Covid-19 deaths
The Covid-19 pandemic has now killed more people than the devastating 2015 earthquake. Officially, over 9,700 Nepalis have died due to the…
Vaccines start trickling into Nepal
Much-delayed vaccine supplies to Nepal appear to be picking up after another lot of Chinese Sinopharm vaccines arrived in Kathmandu on Friday,…
Kathmandu Covid-19 lockdown relaxed
Photos: MONIKA DEUPALAAfter nearly two months, the lockdown in Kathmandu Valley has been relaxed after the number of infections started to go…
3-pronged strategy to save Nepal from Covid-19
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIThe deadly COVID-19 surge that has engulfed neighbouring India appears to be spilling over into Nepal. Daily deaths have…
More remittance, more than remittance
Remittances from Nepali workers abroad have continued to defy expectations. They have risen to Rs729.02 billion, a 16.5% increase from the same…
More remittance, more than remittance
Remittances from Nepali workers abroad have continued to defy expectations. They have risen to Rs729.02 billion, a 16.5% increase from the same…
Peak season on Everest during Nepal's Covid peak
Mt Everest Base Camp last month. Photo: Monika DeupalaWith a ferocious second Covid-19 wave raging and a closing weather window lapping at their…
Dear Sarkar: Why can’t we shop online and stay safe?
Last year, panic shopping during the pandemic became an Internet meme with everyone stocking up extra on toilet paper, toothpaste and tuna…
At the Covid-19 frontlines in rural Nepal
Services provided from outside of OPD due to Covid cases. Photos: NYAYA HEALTH NEPALNepal’s rural health system, already underfunded,…
At the Covid-19 frontlines in rural Nepal
Services provided from outside of OPD due to Covid cases. Photos: NYAYA HEALTH NEPALNepal’s rural health system, already underfunded,…
“EU will stand by Nepal in hard times”
Team Europe will do its part so that 20% of Nepal’s population is vaccinated under the COVAX initiative