Nearly three years after the outbreak of Covid-19, every day life is mostly back to normal. Photo: SUMAN NEPALIFor the first time since it was…
Frontline workers waiting for their booster dose at a hospital in Kathmandu last week. Photos: AMIT MACHAMASIAs elsewhere in the world, the…
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: AMIT MACHAMASIFollowing initial lab reports that AstraZeneca and VeroCell boosters afford lower or no protection against the new Omicron…
The rapid spread of the new coronavirus variant Omicron across the globe has cast serious doubts about the efficacy of different Covid-19…
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIIt has been two years since the coronavirus turned the world (and Nepal) upside down. Masks have become the norm, physical…
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIThe fact that Omicron was detected in an individual who had arrived in Nepal five days before the new variant was first…
MASKING THE TRUTH: Of the approximately 130 people in this photograph of the steps of the Nyatapola Temple during the Saparu festival on Monday,…
All photos: UPASANA KHADKAThousands of Nepal’s outbound workers have been waiting in packed queues for hours, sometimes days, in the capital to…
In recent weeks, Nepal has resumed nationwide vaccinations against the Covid virus in earnest. While this is a crucial step towards ending the…
When Covid-19 cases started to fall last month and the government relaxed the lockdown, most public health experts warned that it was premature…
All photos: AMIT MACHAMASIGlobal inequities in the distribution of the Covid-19 vaccine have revealed themselves during the past six months.…
Much-delayed vaccine supplies to Nepal appear to be picking up after another lot of Chinese Sinopharm vaccines arrived in Kathmandu on Friday,…
Then Health Minister Hridayesh Tripathi receiving the first batch of 348,000 doses of Covishield AstraZeneca vaccines from the UN Resident…
Universal mask wearing could save 2,211 lives in Nepal in the next three months, according to a new study. Photo: AMIT MachamasiIn its daily…
All photos: UNICEF NEPALUNICEF has made an urgent appeal ahead of a G7 summit next month to ask developed countries to release some of their…
Team Europe will do its part so that 20% of Nepal’s population is vaccinated under the COVAX initiative
All photos: AMIT MACHAMASINepal is very close to hitting that ominous mark of 10K new cases a day with 9,196 positive RT PCR and RDT tests on…
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAEver since he was a child, Ramesh knew he wanted to be a doctor to serve society and "do something good for others". Even…
Indian Ambassador to Nepal Vinay Mohan Kwatra at a press meet. India has donated 1 million 1 million Covidsheild vaccines to Nepal, which…
Nischal Shrestha, a caregiver in Israel, getting vaccinated last week.Long before Nepalis in Nepal will be vaccinated against the coronavirus,…
