Diary of a forgettable year

Not much has changed a year after Nepal went into lockdown.

When the government ordered the nationwide lockdown on March 24 last year, most Nepalis naïvely believed the coronavirus would really go away within a week if no one stepped out of their homes. We had just recorded the second coronavirus case in the country, and it would be weeks before the transmission began spreading like wildfire. Week after week, people dutifully obeyed the government's stay-at-home order because that was the right thing to do as speculation and misinformation about the transmission and potency of the virus swept through the country.