Tag: #Covid
Articles tagged with #Covid
China’s surge: should Nepal be worried?
Health workers transporting Covid-19 vaccines in rural Nepal. Photo: NARENDRA SHRESTHA/ADB NEPALIt was exactly three years ago that the novel…
Three years of living dangerously
Nearly three years after the outbreak of Covid-19, every day life is mostly back to normal. Photo: SUMAN NEPALIFor the first time since it was…
Dasain 2022
Vermilion rice paste and barley shoots prepared for Tika. All photos: SUMAN NEPALIAfter two years of relatively muted Dasain festivities due to…
Is Nepal on the verge of a fourth wave?
With a new increase in the number of Covid cases in Nepal, there is now a looming threat of a fourth wave in Nepal, even as public health…
Covid undermines Nepal's mother-child gains
Photos: UNICEF NEPALDespite periods of political and economic instability, Nepal achieved dramatic progress in maternal and child health in the…
3rd Covid wave infects Nepal’s frontliners
Crowd of people lining up for Covid vaccination outside Teku Hospital on Tuesday. Photos: AMIT MACHAMASIDuring the devastating second wave last…
Boosting booster jabs against Omicron
Photo: UNICEF NEPALFor the first time in four months, Nepal recorded over 1,000 daily new Covid cases on Sunday. Of the 12,632 people tested…
Omicron is coming to Nepal, be prepared
“Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.”
Keep the flag flying in 2022
Exactly one year ago, this newspaper restarted its hardcopy edition 10 month after going digital-only. The 1 January 2021 #1042 of Nepali Times…
Domestic frights
Although Nepal’s airlines have weathered the pandemic and remained airworthy, there are concerns about whether Covid has removed forever the…
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…
Covid derails child development in Nepal
Photo: SAGLO SAMAJ/HIMALMEDIAThe Covid-19 worsened the disparities in young children’s development and learning in Nepal. One out of five Nepali…
Long wait over, Nepalis return to Korea
Aakash KC finally flew to Korea on 13 December to rejoin his job after being stranded in Nepal for two years. Photo: AAKASH KCWhen Aakash KC…
New oxygen plants
New oxygen generation plants financed by the World Bank have come into operation in Lumbini and Janakpur Provincial Hospital to ensure an…
Omicron may not be as risky, but take care
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIThe fact that Omicron was detected in an individual who had arrived in Nepal five days before the new variant was first…
Tourism picks up
I nternational tourist arrivals increased by 58% in July-September, compared to the same period of 2020. This is still 64% below average 2019…
Nepal needs to prepare for new Covid wave
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIAfter a dozen or so people were admitted to a hospital in Delhi with suspected omicron strain of Covid, neighbouring Nepal…
Nepal on high alert for Omicron
A student being administered the Pfizer BioNtech vaccine last week in Kathmandu. There are questions about the efficacy of current vaccines…
To vax or not to vax
In Nepal or the US, having an option to vaccinate or not is a matter of privilege
Pfizer vaccines arrive in Nepal
The 100,620 doses of Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine arrived in Kathmandu on Monday. Photos: AMIT MACHAMASIThe first 100,620 doses of Pfizer’s…
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…
New malaria vaccine may not help Nepal
MosquirixThe endorsement on Wednesday in Geneva by the World Health Organisation (WHO) of the new malaria vaccine Mosquirix has been described…
QR coded vaccine certificates in queue
Back in July, migrant workers queued up all day and night for a rubber-stamped paper to certify that they have been vaccinated. Photo: UPASANA…
Giving all Nepalis a shot at the Covid vaccine
State neglect, international apathy, and the climate crisis magnify vaccine inequity in Nepal