Corruption in the epidemic: Double jeopardy

Any country prone to epidemics needs development assistance. For a developing country like Nepal, it has greater significance.

Hence, the corruption accompanying such developmental assistance should be strictly controlled. However, the widespread prevalence of COVID-19 has already sewed a condition of corruption in many countries around the world including in Nepal, as some individuals or groups always look to use the ‘power’ to take advantage of such pandemics.