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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...

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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, variants and a third wave

For the first time in weeks, Nepal recorded more than 3,000 new cases on 20 July. There were 25 deaths. The country...

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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...

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....

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Nepal nears 10k daily cases

Nepal is very close to hitting that ominous mark of 10K new cases a day with 9,196 positive RT PCR and RDT...

Nepal nears 10k daily cases

Nepal is very close to hitting that ominous mark of 10K new cases a day with 9,196 positive RT PCR and RDT...

1st signs of the 2nd wave in Nepal

Nepalis had started to heave a sigh of relief with the start of the vaccine drive in January, but the latest surge in...

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Thick haze adds to Nepal Covid-19 woes

After a year of living in the shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic, Nepalis were bracing themselves for a second wave from India,...

1.6 million vaccinated, 20 million to go

After immunising over 1.6 million Nepalis against Covid-19, the government now plans to administer the rest of the 600,000 jabs that it...

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