Tourism hub Thamel wears a deserted look with COVID fear

Kathmandu Valley's main tourism hub 'Thamel' has worn a deserted looks of late due to coronavirus-escalated fear.

The tourism hotspot has almost come to a standstill with the emergence of second wave of new variant in Nepal. Thamel had remained shut for eight months last year and saw gradual rise in the number of visitors turning up to the popular destination with the decline in the number of COVID cases in Kathmandu later.