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…
The fact that Omicron was detected in an individual who had arrived in Nepal five days before the new variant was first identified in Botswana…
After a dozen or so people were admitted to a hospital in Delhi with suspected omicron strain of Covid, neighbouring Nepal is on a high alert…
The European Union has renewed its committment to sharing more than 200 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines with low and middle-income nations,…
For the first time in weeks, Nepal recorded more than 3,000 new cases on 20 July. There were 25 deaths. The country is on the tail end of what…
Much-delayed vaccine supplies to Nepal appear to be picking up after another lot of Chinese Sinopharm vaccines arrived in Kathmandu on Friday,…
A group of European, Nepali and Bhutanese personalities have sent an open letter to the European Commission, asking it to allow member states to…
There is breaking news every other day: the United States donates 2 million Moderna shots to Bangladesh and Pakistan. Denmark announces 250,000…
Migrant workers, including Nepalis, in Kuwait after being vaccinated. A Nepali worker gets his jab (right). Source: Ram Bahadur BasnetIn…
The Covid-19 pandemic has already claimed the lives of 3.5 million people, worldwide, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), although…
The flood of social media posts of donated medical supplies being unloaded at Kathmandu airport every day, gives the impression that the outside…
Oxygen To save lives, Nepal’s most urgent need now is oxygen. Not just cylinders, but oxygen generators, concentrators and liquid oxygen. Most…
Special interview in Saglo Samaj tv magazine program with Foreign Minister Pradeep Gyawali, who is also a member of the government’s Covid-19…
The United States Embassy in Kathmandu has denied that there is a list of 20 countries that are being considered as potential recipients for its…
Nepalis had started to heave a sigh of relief with the start of the vaccine drive in January, but the latest surge in infection rates show there…
A health worker in Jumla administers Covidshield AstraZeneca vaccine to an elderly this week. Photo: LAXMI NGAKHUSI/UNICEF NEPALOver 1.6 million…
The first frontline health workers being inoculated with Covishield last week in Kathmandu from the 1 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine…
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…
