The Asia-Pacific Travel Health Conference in Kathmandu to discuss disease dynamics in an interconnected world
It started with persistent skin allergy for 15-year-old Uma Kumari Sah. She got a checkup at a leprosy hospital in Dhanusa, and later in India.…
When Lalbahadur Shah of Birganj died last week, none of his relatives showed up for his funeral even though he tested negative for Covid-19.…
Nepal’s history shows that nature matters in dealing with epidemics but, social differences do, too
Epidemics are nothing new in Nepal. In fact, the country’s history is littered with references to frequent outbreaks of cholera, influenza,…
Nepali Times spoke to Barun Mathema, professor of epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University in New York about…
There are important lessons for the Subcontinent from the 1918 Spanish Flu outbreak
All 85 passengers from a Silk Air flight from Singapore carrying a Dutch national of Nepali origin have to self-quarantine after landing in…
Everything you want to know about COVID-19 and the threat it poses to Nepal
A quarantine zone at Nepal Army's headquarters in Tundikhel. Photo: BIKRAM RAIBy now the novel coronavirus pandemic has affected every corner of…
As universities close due to COVID-19, students from Nepal face uncertainty about their future
With business coming to a grinding halt globally due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Nepal’s migration and tourism-based economy is being severely…
Visitors arriving at Tribhuvan International Airport. Photo: BIKRAM RAIThe COVID-19 epidemic is subsiding in China where it originated, and is…
The COVID-19 epidemic has hit countries where millions of Nepalis work
The Covid-19 epidemic has now spread beyond China, and is being transmitted even by infected individuals who are asymptomatic.Chinese scientists…
Nepali students on their way to the quarantine centre in Bhaktapur after landing in Kathmandu Airport on Sunday morning. Photo: RSSThe global…
Peking University campus on the 26th of January. Photo: MADISON PLASTERFor the past week, I have been in a voluntary lockdown in Beijing because…
Like every monsoon, this year has also seen a spike in snakebite deaths across the country. In the Tarai, emergency wards are crowded with…
