Children aged 12-17 started getting inoculated with the Pfizer BioNTech Covid vaccine in Kathmandu on Monday. Photo: AMIT MACHAMASINot long ago,…
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,…
Oxygen To save lives, Nepal’s most urgent need now is oxygen. Not just cylinders, but oxygen generators, concentrators and liquid oxygen. Most…
Nepal is very close to hitting that ominous mark of 10K new cases a day with 9,196 positive RT PCR and RDT tests on Friday, bringing the total…
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…
Thousands of revellers thronged to Kathmandu's Darbar Square on Sunday to celebrate Phau Purnima ignoring warnings of a possible second Covid-19…
After immunising over 1.6 million Nepalis against Covid-19, the government now plans to administer the rest of the 600,000 jabs that it has in…
A health worker in Jumla administers Covidshield AstraZeneca vaccine to an elderly this week. Photo: LAXMI NGAKHUSI/UNICEF NEPALOver 1.6 million…
In a landmark initiative, the world’s 10 leading airlines have joined UNICEF in its Humanitarian Airfreight Initiative to the airlift of…
Nepal took delivery of one million doses of Covishield vaccine ordered from the Serum Institute of India, on Sunday. Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIAmidst…
Even as Nepal completes the first phase of its Covid vaccine drive to inoculate frontline health workers and other high-risk groups, new…
Nepal was one of the first countries in the region to start a mass Covid-19 vaccination drive two weeks ago, but less than half of the frontline…
