COVID19 in Nepal: Now that the world “has” vaccines, are we safe?
COVID19 in Nepal: Now that the world “has” vaccines, are we safe? Satish Raj Pandey, Shashi Dev Shah Almost 11 months after @promed_mail sent this email (below) alerting the world about “pneumonia of unknown cause” in Wuhan, China, the world has recorded, by the time we write this, close to 57 million known infections out of which nearly 1.4 million (2.4%) have died due to COVID19 pandemic (JHU Coronavirus Update Center). While this pandemic has been highly politicized and has been extremely polarizing, these numbers, which look to continue to grow for the foreseeable future, can't be brushed off as not significant. The mental shock, personal trauma, and economic devastation this has caused are of such magnitude and wide-ranging that they simply can't be ignored. The past few days have brought us very mixed news regarding the future of the pandemic. On one hand, the world recorded, for the first time, more than half a million daily cases, moving swiftly on to mor