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Who’s WHO?
Nepali and Bangladeshi candidates vie for regional UN post, pitting experience vs expedience
United by purpose, driven by action
Health for All demands not just commitment but action from every person, everywhere
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…
New malaria vaccine may not help Nepal
MosquirixThe endorsement on Wednesday in Geneva by the World Health Organisation (WHO) of the new malaria vaccine Mosquirix has been described…
Dirty Kathmandu air gets dirtier
Photo: NEPALI TIMES ARCHIVEKathmandu’s air quality has just got considerably worse, not just because of dirtier air, but because the World…
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
Death by drowning on the rise
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAThe death of five children by drowning last month in Dhanusha made headlines. A week later, two boys drowned in a pit left…
Why do so many Nepalis have high blood pressure?
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAThe past year-and-half since the Covid-19 outbreak, Nepal’s limited health resources all had a singular focus. But now that…
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…
No country is safe until we are all safe
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALASouth and southeast Asian countries have in recent months witnessed a sharp and sustained surge of SARS-CoV2 infection. For…
Vacillating on vaccines
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIThe flood of social media posts of donated medical supplies being unloaded at Kathmandu airport every day, gives the…
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…
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…
Next up for vaccines: elderly Nepalis
The first frontline health workers being inoculated with Covishield last week in Kathmandu from the 1 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine…
90% in poor countries will miss Covid vaccinations
The introduction of vaccines against the coronavirus have been described as the light at the end of the tunnel. But for most of the poorest…
90% in poor countries will miss Covid vaccinations
The introduction of vaccines against the coronavirus have been described as the light at the end of the tunnel. But for most of the poorest…
When will Nepal’s Covid vaccine turn come?
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAWith the pre-winter resurgence of Covid-19 around the world and in Nepal, pressure is mounting on governments to procure…
VAX POPULI
Nepal Army special funeral team brings home the first fatality from Covid-19 in Bhojpur District. She was a 24-year-old woman. The government's…
WHO urges ‘extreme caution’ against Covid-19
Photo: BIKRAM RAIThe regional office of the World Health Organization (WHO) based in New Delhi has cautioned against any relaxation of response…
Sputnik V vaccine mystery in Nepal
On Tuesday news broke about an agreement between the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and Nepal’s Trinity Pharmaceuticals to import 25…
Covid-19 to reverse child survival gains
Photo: OM ASTHA RAI/NEPALI TIMES ARCHIVEThe world recorded an all-time low under-five deaths in 2019, but the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in…
“People, please keep a distance.”
Children are collateral damage in Nepal lockdown
Photo: GOPEN RAIOn Friday, it will be four months since Nepal closed the country down to prevent the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus strain that…