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Do Nepalis need Covid booster shots?
Children aged 12-17 started getting inoculated with the Pfizer BioNTech Covid vaccine in Kathmandu on Monday. Photo: AMIT MACHAMASINot long ago,…
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…
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,…
It’s an Emergency
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASI1. Oxygen To save lives, Nepal’s most urgent need now is oxygen. Not just cylinders, but oxygen generators, concentrators…
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…
1st signs of the 2nd wave in Nepal
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASINepalis had started to heave a sigh of relief with the start of the vaccine drive in January, but the latest surge in…
Thick haze adds to Nepal Covid-19 woes
Thousands of revellers thronged to Kathmandu's Darbar Square on Sunday to celebrate Phau Purnima ignoring warnings of a possible second Covid-19…
1.6 million vaccinated, 20 million to go
Photo: UNICEFAfter immunising over 1.6 million Nepalis against Covid-19, the government now plans to administer the rest of the 600,000 jabs…
Despite doubts, Nepal sticks with AstraZeneca jabs
A health worker in Jumla administers Covidshield AstraZeneca vaccine to an elderly this week. Photo: LAXMI NGAKHUSI/UNICEF NEPALOver 1.6 million…
Airlines help vaccine airlift
Photo: UNICEF NEPAL / L P NgakhusiIn a landmark initiative, the world’s 10 leading airlines have joined UNICEF in its Humanitarian Airfreight…
South Asia’s vaccine geopolitics
Nepal took delivery of one million doses of Covishield vaccine ordered from the Serum Institute of India, on Sunday. Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIAmidst…
Nepal braces for new wave with vaccine drive
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAEven as Nepal completes the first phase of its Covid vaccine drive to inoculate frontline health workers and other…
Why is there vaccine hesitancy in Nepal?
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALANepal was one of the first countries in the region to start a mass Covid-19 vaccination drive two weeks ago, but less than…