In Nepal it is storm. Not of snow but of infections from Sars The 2. The situation is very serious and worrying, similar to that of India. The hospitals are already collapsing and the forecasts for the next few days are close to catastrophe.
According to what was declared by the president of the Red Cross Nepalese, Netra Prasad Timsina “if we fail to contain the wave of infections from Covid, what is already happening in India will soon also happen in Nepal”.
And to think that until a month ago the situation seemed to be under control. But things have changed and from one average of about 100 infections per day it has already reached over 8,500.
And the race to ask for help abroad has begun. The local health system is extremely fragile. Few beds are available in the terapie intensive, only 1,595, and respirators are also scarce, less than 500.
There are also few doctors available, so much so that the Ministry of Health had to call back into service retired doctors. For all rounds they are doubled.
Similar to the Indian one is also the vaccination situation. Nepalese citizens who have had the first dose are only 7 percent versus 10 percent in India.
According to analysts, one of the possible causes of the serious increase in infections is due to the presence of Indian citizens who had entered Nepal from neighboring India in recent weeks to escape fromepidemic in your country.
Even in Nepal as in many countries in the area, screening for infections is difficult to implement. In fact, many infections are not registered, especially in the rural areas of the country. Meanwhile, the government is considering extending the lockdown declared on April 29th. Scheduled for days only, the authorities are considering extending it at least until the end of May.