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Articles tagged with #Covid vaccines
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…
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…
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…
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…
Behind the masks
MASKING THE TRUTH: Of the approximately 130 people in this photograph of the steps of the Nyatapola Temple during the Saparu festival on Monday,…
Nepali workers queue up for QR codes
All photos: UPASANA KHADKAThousands of Nepal’s outbound workers have been waiting in packed queues for hours, sometimes days, in the capital to…
Delta variant’s wake-up call for Nepal
In recent weeks, Nepal has resumed nationwide vaccinations against the Covid virus in earnest. While this is a crucial step towards ending the…
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…
Once Nepal gets vaccines, they need to be fairly distributed
All photos: AMIT MACHAMASIGlobal inequities in the distribution of the Covid-19 vaccine have revealed themselves during the past six months.…
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,…
Hope, hyperbole and hypocrisy of COVAX
Then Health Minister Hridayesh Tripathi receiving the first batch of 348,000 doses of Covishield AstraZeneca vaccines from the UN Resident…
Nepal Covid-19 impact worse than official figures
Universal mask wearing could save 2,211 lives in Nepal in the next three months, according to a new study. Photo: AMIT MachamasiIn its daily…
Nepal Covid-19 impact worse than official figures
Universal mask wearing could save 2,211 lives in Nepal in the next three months, according to a new study. Photo: AMIT MachamasiIn its daily…
UNICEF urges G7 to dispatch vaccines
All photos: UNICEF NEPALUNICEF has made an urgent appeal ahead of a G7 summit next month to ask developed countries to release some of their…
UNICEF urges G7 to dispatch vaccines
All photos: UNICEF NEPALUNICEF has made an urgent appeal ahead of a G7 summit next month to ask developed countries to release some of their…
“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
Nepal nears 10k daily cases
All photos: AMIT MACHAMASINepal is very close to hitting that ominous mark of 10K new cases a day with 9,196 positive RT PCR and RDT tests on…
Nepal nears 10k daily cases
All photos: AMIT MACHAMASINepal is very close to hitting that ominous mark of 10K new cases a day with 9,196 positive RT PCR and RDT tests on…
Medical students deprived of Covid-19 vaccines
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAEver since he was a child, Ramesh knew he wanted to be a doctor to serve society and "do something good for others". Even…
Medical students deprived of Covid-19 vaccines
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAEver since he was a child, Ramesh knew he wanted to be a doctor to serve society and "do something good for others". Even…
Jabs and jab-nots
Indian Ambassador to Nepal Vinay Mohan Kwatra at a press meet. India has donated 1 million 1 million Covidsheild vaccines to Nepal, which…