Crowd of people lining up for Covid vaccination outside Teku Hospital on Tuesday. Photos: AMIT MACHAMASIDuring the devastating second wave last…
For the first time in four months, Nepal recorded over 1,000 daily new Covid cases on Sunday. Of the 12,632 people tested nationwide, 9% were…
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…
In Nepal or the US, having an option to vaccinate or not is a matter of privilege
The 100,620 doses of Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine arrived in Kathmandu on Monday. Photos: AMIT MACHAMASIThe first 100,620 doses of Pfizer’s…
A post-graduate student of mechanical engineering Samita Rimal is completing her 14-day quarantine in a hotel in Montreal. Despite being fully…
Back in July, migrant workers queued up all day and night for a rubber-stamped paper to certify that they have been vaccinated. Photo: UPASANA…
State neglect, international apathy, and the climate crisis magnify vaccine inequity in Nepal
The upsurge of Covid-19 cases, hospitalisations, and deaths in the United States serves as a bitter reminder that the pandemic is not over. The…
High school students sit for exams in Adarsha Azad College in Bhaktapur on Wednesday. Schools in Kathmandu Valley were all set to restart…
We must not go for third doses when so much of the world has not even got its first Covid-19 vaccine shot
Scientists can invent vaccines, but political scientists cannot find answers to vaccine denial
I am writing from Victoria, the Australian state that became, in 1970, the first jurisdiction in the world to make it compulsory to wear a seat…
Actor Michael Palin and Agnès Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International.British actor Michael Palin and Amnesty International on…
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…
The world is at a tipping point in the battle to contain the spread of Covid-19. Countries across Asia are struggling to access vaccines while…
Nepal has started to vaccinate people with disabilities across the country against the coronavirus with the Johnson & Johnson single-shot jab.…
The 1.5 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccines by the United States under the global COVAX facility has arrived in Kathmandu via a…
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…
Much has been said about ‘vaccine apartheid’ and how instead of levelling out rich and poor, it has widened inequities. Nepal today is living…
Migrant workers, including Nepalis, in Kuwait after being vaccinated. A Nepali worker gets his jab (right). Source: Ram Bahadur BasnetIn…
