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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…
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…
Diary of a Covid frontline worker in Nepal
Security personnel and relatives of the deceased attend a mourning at the premise of infectious disease hospital in Pokhara. Photos: BARSHA…
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…
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.…
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
Covid-19 and Human Freedom
Photo via PROJECT SYNDICATEThe upsurge of Covid-19 cases, hospitalisations, and deaths in the United States serves as a bitter reminder that the…
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…
To boost or not to boost
We must not go for third doses when so much of the world has not even got its first Covid-19 vaccine shot
Dying to get vaccinated
Scientists can invent vaccines, but political scientists cannot find answers to vaccine denial
Why vaccination should be compulsory
Photo: UNICEF NEPALI am writing from Victoria, the Australian state that became, in 1970, the first jurisdiction in the world to make it…
Renewed call on UK to rush vaccines to Nepal
Actor Michael Palin and Agnès Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International.British actor Michael Palin and Amnesty International on…
EU to share 200 million vaccines by 2021
Photo: UNICEF NEPALThe European Union has renewed its committment to sharing more than 200 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines with low and…
Vaccines, variants and a third wave
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIFor the first time in weeks, Nepal recorded more than 3,000 new cases on 20 July. There were 25 deaths. The country is on…
Global solidarity needs intensive care in pandemic battle
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAThe world is at a tipping point in the battle to contain the spread of Covid-19. Countries across Asia are struggling to…
Nepal’s disabled get a shot at Covid
All photos: MONIKA DEUPALANepal has started to vaccinate people with disabilities across the country against the coronavirus with the Johnson &…
Johnson & Johnson in Nepal
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIThe 1.5 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccines by the United States under the global COVAX facility has arrived in…
Nepal-Bhutan vaccine appeal to European Commission
A group of European, Nepali and Bhutanese personalities have sent an open letter to the European Commission, asking it to allow member states to…
Vaccines too little, too late for Nepal?
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAThere is breaking news every other day: the United States donates 2 million Moderna shots to Bangladesh and Pakistan.…
No vax? Ask for Mask.
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIMuch has been said about ‘vaccine apartheid’ and how instead of levelling out rich and poor, it has widened inequities.…
Job-seekers now also jab-seekers
Migrant workers, including Nepalis, in Kuwait after being vaccinated. A Nepali worker gets his jab (right). Source: Ram Bahadur BasnetIn…