What lessons we have not learnt five years after Covid-19 turned the world, and Nepal, upside down.
BRIDGING THE HEALTH GAP: Community health worker Birma Devi Kunwar, 32, crosses a bridge in Darchula with a Covid-19 vaccine box on her back.…
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIThe fact that Omicron was detected in an individual who had arrived in Nepal five days before the new variant was first…
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: UNICEF NEPALThe European Union has renewed its committment to sharing more than 200 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines with low and…
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIFor the first time in weeks, Nepal recorded more than 3,000 new cases on 20 July. There were 25 deaths. The country is on…
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALASouth and southeast Asian countries have in recent months witnessed a sharp and sustained surge of SARS-CoV2 infection. For…
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIThe flood of social media posts of donated medical supplies being unloaded at Kathmandu airport every day, gives the…
The only way to prevent Covid-19 for now is for Nepalis to mask up, avoid crowds and wash hands
Nepal Army special funeral team brings home the first fatality from Covid-19 in Bhojpur District. She was a 24-year-old woman. The government's…
UPDATE 29 August: Covid-19 fatality in Nepal now stands at 207. A total of 22 people are undergoing treatment with ventilator support: three in…
Hand-washing and masks will help Nepal cope with infectious diseases that pre-date COVID-19
There are important lessons for the Subcontinent from the 1918 Spanish Flu outbreak
A quarantine zone at Nepal Army's headquarters in Tundikhel. Photo: BIKRAM RAIBy now the novel coronavirus pandemic has affected every corner of…
Photo : UNICEFLast month, the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine published a study of the successful trial of a new typhoid vaccine…
Photo: UNICEFPolio eradication is one of the most ambitious public health initiatives undertaken in human history. Launched in 1988 by the World…
Bikram RaiNeglect by Nepal's rulers of the poor, the disenfranchised and marginalised has been a given throughout our history. Royal or…
