Recent outbreaks of infectious diseases weigh down Nepal’s health system even as it deals with rising chronic maladies
International conference in Kathmandu to showcase path-breaking research in prevention and treatment of the disease
Experts urge caution for at risk groups, but no panic
I nternational tourist arrivals increased by 58% in July-September, compared to the same period of 2020. This is still 64% below average 2019…
Scientists can invent vaccines, but political scientists cannot find answers to vaccine denial
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALASo far, 450,000 Nepalis have received the first dose of Covishield, reaching 85% of the target group in the first phase of…
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAEven as Nepal completes the first phase of its Covid vaccine drive to inoculate frontline health workers and other…
Nischal Shrestha, a caregiver in Israel, getting vaccinated last week.Long before Nepalis in Nepal will be vaccinated against the coronavirus,…
The introduction of vaccines against the coronavirus have been described as the light at the end of the tunnel. But for most of the poorest…
Children in Gai Jatra procession in Kathmandu on Tuesday even as the risk of COVID-19 looms over the capital. Participants have however taken to…
Photo: GOPEN RAIOn Friday, it will be four months since Nepal closed the country down to prevent the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus strain that…
The third in a series about how epidemics in the past determined the course of Nepal’s history
Researchers have been puzzled about why while the COVID-19 pandemic ravages China, Europe and now North America, low-income countries in South…
Photo : UNICEFLast month, the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine published a study of the successful trial of a new typhoid vaccine…
