‘The only way Nepal’s Covid-19 crisis can be controlled is stricter lockdown’

Nepal, having seen a steady rise in the number of Covid-19 cases went into partial lockdown in affected districts of the country around two weeks ago. Even though the lockdown has been in place, the number of cases is increasing throughout the country.

To understand more about why there has been a recent surge in the cases due to the mutated virus, Onlinekhabar caught up with Dr Sudip Khadka , a virologist based in New York, who explains how virus change shapes, the effectiveness of the vaccine and what Nepal failed to do in its Covid-19 response.