Tag: #Covid-19
Articles tagged with #Covid-19
Lockdown+5
Nepal clamped its first Covid lockdown on 24 March 2020, and five years later many have forgotten what it was like
Still learning lessons from COVID
Nepal is a contributor to an important recovery trial that discovered treatment for coronavirus disease
New dengue outbreak likely this monsoon
Last year’s dengue virus is in mosquito larvae, ready to spread when the rains come
Another Covid wave, but milder
Experts urge caution for at risk groups, but no panic
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…
1. Mask Up. 2. Avoid Crowds. 3. Get Boosters
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASI/NEPALI TIMES ARCHIVEA new surge in Covid cases in Nepal has served as a reminder that the pandemic is not over yet, and on…
Not over till it's over
BRIDGING THE HEALTH GAP: Community health worker Birma Devi Kunwar, 32, crosses a bridge in Darchula with a Covid-19 vaccine box on her back.…
Sky high fuel price hits Nepal’s tourism, airlines
One month after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the fallout of the war on global fuel prices threatens to derail Nepal’s aviation and tourism…
Pandemic eclipses Nepal's TB epidemic
Tuberculosis kills many more Nepalis than Covid-19, but prevention, early diagnosis and treatment will save lives
From pandemic to epidemic to endemic
While many countries lift mask mandates and coronavirus restrictions, Hong Kong and China are reeling from an Omicrons surge. Britain, the US…
No more PCR for Nepal passengers
Photo: NEPALI TIMES ARCHIVETravellers to Nepal now do not need to present previously mandatory PCR-RT test results to be granted entry into the…
Himalayans on the frontlines
Imja Glacier has turned into a lake 3km long and 1km wide in the last 30 years due to global warming. Photo: KUNDA DIXITThe double-barrel crisis…
Healthcare moving from hospitals to homes
Photo: SONIA AWALEThe spread of telemedicine is one of the most remarkable spillover effects of the Covid-19 pandemic worldwide, and could also…
Khumbu dogs go wild after tourism decline
When Nepal’s trekking income dropped due to the pandemic, hungry dogs behaved like the wolves they evolved from
Suicides: a pandemic within a pandemic
The coronavirus disease is one of the most well-documented health crises of recent times, with its correlation to almost every sector in society…
Think nationally, vote locally
Photo: BIKRAM RAI/NEPALI TIMESWhen the second wave hit Nepal in May 2021, city hospitals ran out of ICU beds and oxygen, and politicians in…
Omnipresent Omicron starts to lose its edge
Frontline workers waiting for their booster dose at a hospital in Kathmandu last week. Photos: AMIT MACHAMASIAs elsewhere in the world, the…
Polls in the time of pandemic
After hemming and hawing about holding local elections, top leaders of the five-party alliance that met on Tuesday finally made some headway.…
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…
Rohit, Amit and Dhana
Rohit is from Bihar and drives an auto rickshaw in Mumbai. Life has been a struggle ever since he lost his parents in a car crash. Like many…
Omicron is coming to Nepal, be prepared
“Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.”
“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…
From scarce vaccines, to storage shortage in Nepal
The 4.1 million doses of Moderna and J&J vaccines sent by Germany via COVAX facility arrived in Kathmandu this week. Photo: UNICEFTill a few…