Tag: #COVID-19 pandemic
Articles tagged with #COVID-19 pandemic
When denial goes viral
What lessons we have not learnt five years after Covid-19 turned the world, and Nepal, upside down.
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…
Remaking of Nepal
OLD AND NEW: The new 79m high Dharara tower is being inaugurated on Saturday by Prime Minister Oli. A small replica of the previous tower sits…
Nepal’s virus vortex
A woman with her mask down walks by Sneha Shrestha mural in Pimbahal, Patan this week. Photo: BIKRAM RAI Five months after the first COVID-19…
It’s a small world
All photos: AJAY NARSINGH RANAWe have been home now for more than four months, and as a blogger, nature and wildlife photographer, the shelter…
Lockdown may be over, but pandemic is not
It's business as usual at the Behaliya checkpoint in Rupandeni district near the Indian border. Photo: MUKESH POKHRELAs the number of cases and…
Stop complaining, start contributing
Whether you see the glass as half empty or half full, it is time to take action and move ahead
Lockdown gives distance learning a boost in Nepal
Home learning familiarises teachers and students with technology, and could help lift quality of instruction
Playing politics in a pandemic
Prime Minister Oli and NCP co-chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal maintain physical distance at a meeting on Wednesday of MPs from the Far-Western Province…
Newborn deaths and a vision for a post-pandemic Nepal
The overall trend in neo-natal deaths is positive, but the poorest families will lag behind further as inequality grows
Nepal's New Normal
Illustration: BHANU BHATTARAIThe COVID-19 pandemic is like a nightmare that we wish we could suddenly wake up from, realising that it was just a…
Nepal locked down, now what?
Transparency. Concealing information fuels conspiracies, rumour-mongering and the ‘fake news’.
Nepal goes into lockdown for a week
A deserted Tribhuvan International Airport today. All international flights in Nepal have been cancelled from 22-31 March. All Photos: BIKRAM…
Remembering a pandemic 100 years ago
There are important lessons for the Subcontinent from the 1918 Spanish Flu outbreak
Covid-19, Nepal and the hygiene hypothesis
Nepal has been spared so far, but it is better to be prepared for the worst
Kathmandu in the time of cholera
Patan Darbar Square Photograph taken by Bourne and Sheperd in 1870. Photo: The British LibraryKathmandu in the 1880s was a small place, about…