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

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 |

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Sell Hope to the Utterly Hopeless and Desperate, They’ll Buy it

Sell hope to the utterly hopeless and desperate, they’ll buy it, NOT because they are stupid. Unless you have experienced extended or prolonged despair or, worse, utter hopelessness, you cannot imagine what that is like. And in these uncertain, stressful and, for many, desperate times of the coronavirus pandemic, many, I am sure have already been and will be victimized. The situation, unfortunately, will get worse, a lot worse, before it starts getting better for many. If you have not experienced utter hopelessness, hold your judgement of those who buy hope, however.

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

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.

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