Tag: #omicron
Articles tagged with #omicron
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…
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…
Nepal’s ‘long-Covid’ impact on children
Photo: UNICEF NEPALWhile ‘long-Covid’ has come to mean lingering symptoms among survivors of Covid-19 infections, in Nepal it connotes the…
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…
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…
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…
Omicron is coming to Nepal, be prepared
“Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.”
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…
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…
Booster lack strands Israel-bound Nepalis
Photo: NEPALI TIMES ARCHIVEThe fate of 1,000 Nepali caregivers who were ready to fly to Israel to take up their jobs is in limbo because they do…
Nepal on high alert for Omicron
A student being administered the Pfizer BioNtech vaccine last week in Kathmandu. There are questions about the efficacy of current vaccines…