coronavirus-pandemic

3rd wave in 2 years

It was on 23 January 2020 that the first Covid-19 case was detected in Nepal. Two years later, the country is on...

Sonia Awale

“All vaccines prevent severe Covid”

Following initial lab reports that AstraZeneca and VeroCell boosters afford lower or no protection against the new Omicron strain, Nepal Times reached out...

“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 vaccines...

Living with Covid in 2022

It has been two years since the coronavirus turned the world (and Nepal) upside down.  Masks have become the norm, physical distancing...

Sonia Awale

Do Nepalis need Covid booster shots?

Not long ago, to boost or not to boost was the dilemma of rich countries, even as developing nations were struggling to vaccinate their...

Sonia Awale

The statelessness pandemic

Legal theorists once consigned the idea of ‘statelessness’ to the realm of fiction, because they considered it to be impossible within the...

Nepal’s glaring food gap

Although the undernutrition rate in Nepal has dropped dramatically in the past two decades, a quarter of its children still go to bed hungry...

Donated ventilators gather dust in Nepal

When the second wave of the Delta variant ravaged Nepal in April-May this year, hospitals ran out of oxygen and ICU beds. The international community...

The other pandemic: mental health

Children and young people across the world could feel the impact of Covid-19 on their mental health for many years even after the worst...

The jabs and jabnots

A post-graduate student of mechanical engineering Samita Rimal is completing her 14-day quarantine in a hotel in Montreal. Despite being fully vaccinated...

Sonia Awale