HELLO NEPAL

Zero Covid-19 deaths in the last 24 hours It was wonderful to know that nobody died of Covid 19 in the last 24 hours in Nepal since August 2020. Although the number of deaths due to infection came down to zero, it doesn’t mean that no one will die due to the disease from now on as more than 200 people are still testing positive every day. Nepal reported its first Covid-19 death on May 16 last year. The disease has so far claimed 2,020 people throughout the country. Experts say that the major reason for the decline in the number of people testing positive for the virus is that the government has stopped providing free tests to asymptomatic people and the number of polymerase chain reaction tests conducted each day has declined significantly.    Nepal launched out its Covid-19 vaccination drive on Wednesday, a little over a year after the country confirmed its first coronavirus case on January 24, 2020. At present, there are 3,203 active cases throughout the country. ...

The Himalayan Times 28 January 2021   Another political stunt? PM Oli has made another big headline in the news media by visiting Pashupatinath temple yesterday amidst a controversial decision he had made a month ago "Prime Minister Oli performs special pooja at Pashupatinath" (THT Online, Jan 26). That was his abrupt decision to dissolve the House of Representatives. There seems to be many speculations and arguments about his visit to the Pashupatinath Temple. Some of his critics opine that his visit to a temple was nothing but simply to garner sympathy votes from pro-Hindu and pro-monarchist voters, who are vehemently demanding restoration of the Hindu state and monarchy in the recent days. Other argue that his visit to a temple was an attack on the constitution which made Nepal a secular republic. Oli is the first communist prime minister to visit the Pashupatinath temple for a puja. Other communist prime ministers like Manmohan Adhikari, Madhav Kumar Nepal, Pushpa Kamal...

  Many congrats to the government Finally, the Covid 19 vaccination programme started in Nepal from today. (January 27, 2021),Wednesday. The government of India had donated 1 million Covishield vaccines last week. According to officials, around 430,000 frontline workers–health workers, supporting staffers at health facilities, female community health volunteers, security personnel, sanitation workers, elderly people living in care homes, and prisoners–will be inoculated in 65 districts across the country. Over 600 health workers have been trained to run the immunisation campaign. Booths with the capacity to immunise 200 people have been set up at the inoculation centres. In Kathmandu Valley, shots will be administered from 17 hospitals–Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital, Bir Hospital, Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Patan Hospital, KIST Medical College, Civil Hospital, National Ayurveda Research and Training Center, Paropakar Maternity and Women’s Hos...