covax

From scarce vaccines, to storage shortage in Nepal

Till a few months ago, Nepal was struggling with a critical shortage of vaccine doses, and the situation was so dire that the...

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

Buddha Basnyat

EU to share 200 million vaccines by 2021

The European Union has renewed its committment to sharing more than 200 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines with low and middle-income nations, including Nepal,...

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, and assurances...

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...

Vaccines too little, too late for Nepal?

There is breaking news every other day: the United States donates 2 million Moderna shots to Bangladesh and Pakistan. Denmark announces 250,000...

Sonia Awale

Hope, hyperbole and hypocrisy of COVAX

As a previously unknown mystery disease caused by the novel coronavirus struck Planet Earth in the winter of 2019-20, public health officials...

Vacillating on vaccines

The flood of social media posts of donated medical supplies being unloaded at Kathmandu airport every day, gives the impression that the...

It’s an Emergency

1. Oxygen To save lives, Nepal’s most urgent need now is oxygen. Not just cylinders, but oxygen generators, concentrators and liquid oxygen....

Sonia Awale

"Nepal is a priority for vaccine shipments"

Special interview in Saglo Samaj tv magazine program with Foreign Minister Pradeep Gyawali, who is also a member of the government’s Covid-19...