Experts urge caution for at risk groups, but no panic
Health workers transporting Covid-19 vaccines in rural Nepal. Photo: NARENDRA SHRESTHA/ADB NEPALIt was exactly three years ago that the novel…
Frontline workers waiting for their booster dose at a hospital in Kathmandu last week. Photos: AMIT MACHAMASIAs elsewhere in the world, the…
Photo: UNICEF NEPALWhile ‘long-Covid’ has come to mean lingering symptoms among survivors of Covid-19 infections, in Nepal it connotes the…
Crowd of people lining up for Covid vaccination outside Teku Hospital on Tuesday. Photos: AMIT MACHAMASIDuring the devastating second wave last…
Daily reported Covid-19 cases and deaths since January 2020, when the first case was detected in Nepal.It was on 23 January 2020 that the first…
Photo: UNICEF NEPALFor the first time in four months, Nepal recorded over 1,000 daily new Covid cases on Sunday. Of the 12,632 people tested…
“Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.”
The 4.1 million doses of Moderna and J&J vaccines sent by Germany via COVAX facility arrived in Kathmandu this week. Photo: UNICEFTill a few…
Security personnel and relatives of the deceased attend a mourning at the premise of infectious disease hospital in Pokhara. Photos: BARSHA…
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIThe fact that Omicron was detected in an individual who had arrived in Nepal five days before the new variant was first…
Photo: NEPALI TIMES ARCHIVEThe fate of 1,000 Nepali caregivers who were ready to fly to Israel to take up their jobs is in limbo because they do…
A student being administered the Pfizer BioNtech vaccine last week in Kathmandu. There are questions about the efficacy of current vaccines…