covid

China’s surge: should Nepal be worried?

It was exactly three years ago that the novel coronavirus first emerged from Wuhan. SARS-COV-2 has now come full circle as cases...

Sonia Awale

Three years of living dangerously

For the first time since it was first detected almost three years ago and ravaged Nepal, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has been overtaken...

Sonia Awale

Dasain 2022

After two years of relatively muted Dasain festivities due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Nepalis were all revved up to make up for it this...

Is Nepal on the verge of a fourth wave?

With a new increase in the number of Covid cases in Nepal, there is now a looming threat of a fourth wave...

Covid undermines Nepal's mother-child gains

Despite periods of political and economic instability, Nepal achieved dramatic progress in maternal and child health in the early 2000s becoming an...

3rd Covid wave infects Nepal’s frontliners

During the devastating second wave last year, hundreds of people were dying every day. Hospitals had run out of ICU beds and oxygen...

Sonia Awale

Boosting booster jabs against Omicron

For the first time in four months, Nepal recorded over 1,000 daily new Covid cases on Sunday. Of the 12,632 people tested nationwide, 9% were positive – proving that Omicron has replaced Delta as...

Omicron is coming to Nepal, be prepared

“Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.”

Keep the flag flying in 2022

Exactly one year ago, this newspaper restarted its hardcopy edition 10 month after going digital-only. The 1 January 2021 #1042 of Nepali...

Domestic frights

Although Nepal’s airlines have weathered the pandemic and remained airworthy, there are concerns about whether Covid has removed forever the magic and...

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