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Nepal’s COVID-19 Crisis Becomes “Unmanageable” Amid Exponential Rise in Cases

HeadlineMay 04, 2021

India’s COVID crisis has spilled into neighboring Nepal, which reported a record one-day high of daily infections Tuesday. Nepal’s Army began cremating the remains of COVID victims in open areas of Kathmandu after temples and crematoriums ran out of space. Nepal’s Ministry of Health has issued an urgent appeal for millions of vaccine doses, calling the crisis “unmanageable.”

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