COVID-19 Nepal: If It Weren’t for the Ministry of Health And Population’s July Predictions, We’d Be All Right…Or Not!

Post published:September 10, 2021
Post category:COVID-19 Nepal Kathmandu, Mustang & Nepal
Reading time:6 mins read

Since the beginning of July, after the lockdown was lifted, cases, mostly, have been on a downward trend and the Government of Nepal has been relaxing the prohibitions one after another. Of late, the prohibitions have been relaxed considerably. Even restaurants, bars, night clubs, movie theaters are now allowed to open. But, according to the Ministry of Health and Population, the third wave is projected to hit the country in October! So, what's going on? Who knows!

Oli-garchy…In the Times of the Coronavirus Pandemic

Post published:July 20, 2021
Post category:COVID-19 Nepal Kathmandu, Mustang & Nepal
Reading time:12 mins read

Oli-garchy utterly failed the people of Nepal during these unprecendented times of the Coronavirus pandemic. But Oli will rise again...if Nepali people have their way, just as Deuba has now risen...for the fifth time in just 30 years!

COVID-19 Nepal Update: Government of Nepal Has Given Up

Post published:October 20, 2020
Post category:Kathmandu, Mustang & Nepal COVID-19 Nepal
Reading time:7 mins read

I have been tracking the Coronavirus pandemic in Nepal by keeping tracking of data about and related to it. Based on my analysis of those data, I have come to conclude that the Government of Nepal was really just pretending to fight the pandemic. Sadly, in the last few days, they appear to have given up the fight. They appear to have collapsed.

COVID-19 Nepal: Sept. 15 Status Update

Post published:September 17, 2020
Post category:COVID-19 Nepal Kathmandu, Mustang & Nepal
Reading time:3 mins read

A reproduction of my Twitter, COVID-19 status, update for Nepal that I made on September 15. I made the update following the Government of Nepal's announcement to REDUCE testing! Of course, the data show that would be a BAD move!

COVID-19 Nepal: Sept. 10 Status Update

Post published:September 17, 2020
Post category:Kathmandu, Mustang & Nepal COVID-19 Nepal
Reading time:4 mins read

A reproduction of my Twitter, COVID-19 status, update for Nepal that I made on September 10. What does the data show, as limited as haphazard as they are? I look at the progress of the pandemic from towards the third week of July, from when lockdown 1.0 was lifted.

COVID-19 Nepal: Sept. 5 Status Update

Post published:September 17, 2020
Post category:Kathmandu, Mustang & Nepal COVID-19 Nepal
Reading time:5 mins read

A reproduction of my Twitter, COVID-19 status, update for Nepal that I made on September 5. I look at the progress of the pandemic mostly until the end of July by discussing what the data show, as limited and haphazard as they are.

Coronavirus and Nepal: What Happened, Why, and Now What?

Post published:September 3, 2020
Post category:Nepal Education & Parenting COVID-19 Nepal Kathmandu, Mustang & Nepal
Reading time:5 mins read

A short blog post about what happened, why, and what next in Nepal with the coronavirus pandemic in terms of mostly testing data, as random and limited as they are.

कोरोनाभैरस र नेपाल: के भयो, किन, र अब के?

Post published:September 3, 2020
Post category:Kathmandu, Mustang & Nepal COVID-19 Nepal
Reading time:4 mins read

कोरोना virus contain र mitigate कसरी र किन हाम्रो सरकारले पहिलो चरणमा गर्न सकेन? यो सम्बंधी हामीसंग भएको सिमित dataमा आधारित एउटा commentary, अनि के हुनु/गर्नु पर्छ |

Coronavirus Pandemic in Nepal: No Strategy…So Say The Charts

Post published:June 7, 2020
Post category:Kathmandu, Mustang & Nepal COVID-19 Nepal
Reading time:8 mins read

If charts could speak, these charts of mine would scream, "Where is your strategy?" Five months since news of the coronavirus reached us, four since the first case of infection, and over two of lockdown, and now with the cases entering exponential growth phase, Government of Nepal still does NOT appear to have a strategy. That COULD spell a humanitarian crises in the country.