HRW urges Nepal to act urgently to avert looming COVID-19 disaster Human Rights Watch has warned the Nepal government that if it does not act urgently, the rapidly escalating COVID-19 cases will have a devastating impact on public health. Nepal 11 May, 2021
NHRC for effective health services for COVID patients The National Human Rights Commission has expressed serious concern about the steep surge in the number of coronavirus cases amid the second wave of the COVID pandemic. Kathmandu 09 May, 2021
EDITORIAL: People's lives matter Though belated, the government has swung into action to add thousands of beds across the country to treat a deluge of serious COVID-19 patients. Opinion 05 May, 2021
Oli plans to combat COVID on war footing Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has directed the Nepali Army to set up 1,000-bed temporary COVID-19 hospitals in all the provinces and in Kathmandu. Nepal 04 May, 2021
EDITORIAL: Act on war footing With the sharp rise in the number of fresh COVID-19 infections across the country, the government seems to have thrown up its hands in utter hopelessness to deal with the situation, drawing the ire of the people and the political parties at large. Opinion 03 May, 2021
India launches effort to inoculate all adults against COVID In hopes of taming a monstrous spike in COVID-19 infections, India opened vaccinations to all adults Saturday, launching a huge inoculation effort that was sure to tax the limits of the federal government, the country's vaccine factories and the patience of its 1.4 billion people. World 02 May, 2021
NC, BSP slam government's inability to manage beds, oxygen for COVID patients The Nepali Congress and Bibeksheel Sajha Party have condemned the government’s statement that there were not enough beds for COVID-19 victims due to the sharp rise in the number of COVID-19 infected people. Nepal 02 May, 2021
India's coronavirus crisis deepens as countries promise aid Infections in the last 24 hours rose to 352,991, with overcrowded hospitals in Delhi and elsewhere turning away patients after running out of supplies of medical oxygen and beds. World 26 Apr, 2021
Oxygen shortage hits Narayani Hospital Lack of oxygen has adversely affected treatment of COVID patients in Narayani Hospital, Parsa. Nepal 22 Apr, 2021
Serum Institute to sell Covishield vaccines to private hospitals Serum Institute of India (SII) announced on Wednesday that state government of India, private hospitals and other vaccination centres in the country can procure the Covishield vaccine directly. World 21 Apr, 2021
Delhi COVID-19 cemetery running low on space as deaths mount Beating the earth with his fists, a young man wails as the body of his father, who died after contracting COVID-19, is taken from an ambulance and lowered into a hastily-dug grave in India's capital New Delhi. World 16 Apr, 2021
India's new coronavirus infections hit record as Hindu devotees immerse in Ganges India's new coronavirus infections hit a record on Wednesday, as crowds of pilgrims gathered for a religious festival despite oxygen shortages and strict curbs in other areas. World 14 Apr, 2021
