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Nepalese Health Minister Sher Bahadur Tamang speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Kathmandu, Nepal, Thursday, June 17, 2021. Nepal has been able to significantly lower reduce new coronavirus infections after its worst outbreak, but is in desperate need of vaccines, the health minister said Thursday. (AP Photos/Bikram Rai)
AP Interview: Official says Nepal desperately needs vaccines

By Binaj Gurubacharya Jun. 17, 2021 09:39 AM EDT

Trekking guide Ang Phurba Sherpa speaks during an interview with The Associate Press in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, June 7, 2021. Most Sherpa guides in Nepal famed for the climbing skills have had little or no work guiding foreign trekkers on Nepal's mountains because of the pandemic but trekking guide Ang Phurba Sherpa is spending his savings to help fellow guides and workers who are struggling for their livelihood. (AP Photos/Bikram Rai)
Sherpa guide uses savings to help colleagues during pandemic

By Binaj Gurubacharya Jun. 14, 2021 09:05 PM EDT

A Nepalese health worker sanitizes the hands of a woman as she arrives gets inoculated against the coronavirus in Kathmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, June 8, 2021. Nepal resumed its stalled coronavirus vaccination campaign on Tuesday with 1 million doses given by China after the Himalayan nation made international pleas for help with a shortage of doses. (AP Photos/Bikram Rai)
Nepal resumes vaccination campaign with doses given by China

By Binaj Gurubacharya Jun. 08, 2021 04:53 AM EDT

Chinese climber Zhang Hong, 44, who became the first blind Asian to scale Mount Everest upon return from the mountain sits during an interview with the Associated Press at a hotel in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, May 31, 2021.Zhang says he aims to climb the highest peaks on all seven continents and then travel to the North and South Poles. (AP Photos/Bikram Rai)
Chinese climber becomes 1st blind Asian to scale Everest

By Binaj Gurubacharya May. 31, 2021 08:10 AM EDT

FILE- In this Nov. 12, 2015 file photo, Mount Everest is seen from the way to Kalapatthar in Nepal. A year after Mount Everest was closed to climbers as the pandemic swept across the globe, hundreds are making the final push to the summit with only a few more days left in the season, saying they are undeterred by a coronavirus outbreak in base camp. (AP Photo/Tashi Sherpa, File)
Virus fails to deter hundreds of climbers on Mount Everest

By Binaj Gurubacharya May. 29, 2021 12:06 AM EDT

Veteran Sherpa guide Kami Rita who returned from the mountains on a helicopter arrives at the airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, May 25, 2021. The record-holding Sherpa climber halted his attempt to scale Mount Everest for a 26th time because of a bad dream but plans to try again next year. (AP Photos/Bikram Rai)
Bad dream stopped Everest guide from climbing peak 26th time

By Binaj Gurubacharya May. 25, 2021 03:44 AM EDT

A woman wearing a face mask loads groceries into her car after shopping at a Zupan's grocery store in Portland, Ore., on Friday, May 21, 2021. As the federal government and many states ease rules around mask-wearing and business occupancy, some blue states like Oregon and Washington are still holding on to some longtime coronavirus restrictions. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus)
The Latest: Variant 1st seen in UK now dominant in LA County

By The Associated Press May. 22, 2021 07:39 AM EDT

FILE- In this Nov. 12, 2015 file photo, Mt. Everest is seen from the way to Kalapatthar in Nepal. A Swiss climber and an American have died on Mount Everest in the season's first casualties on the world's highest mountain, expedition organizers said Thursday. (AP Photo/Tashi Sherpa, File)
Guide: Over 100 virus cases on Everest despite Nepal denials

By Binaj Gurubacharya May. 22, 2021 06:25 AM EDT

A stranded Spanish national shows his papers as he arrives to board a repatriation flight arranged by their government at Kathmandu airport, Nepal, Friday, May 21, 2021,. The flight to Madrid took 96 people who have been stranded in Nepal since the country went on lockdown in April to curb the spiking COVID-19 cases. The plane also brought to Nepal medical aid and equipment worth 1 million Euro ($1.2 million) gifted by the Spanish government as Nepal struggles with highest daily new cases and highest daily deaths this month. (AP Photo/Binaj Gurubacharya)
Repatriation flight rescues stranded Spaniards from Nepal

By Binaj Gurubacharya May. 21, 2021 12:56 AM EDT

Policemen stand guard as Nepalese devotees pull a chariot during the Rato Machindranath chariot festival in Lalitpur, Nepal, Saturday, May 15, 2021. A truncated version of a Hindu chariot festival took place in Nepal's capital on Saturday amid strict COVID-19 restrictions, following an agreement between organizers and authorities that prevented a repeat of violent confrontations between police and protesters at last year's festival. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
Nepal scales back Hindu chariot festival amid virus surge

By Binaj Gurubacharya May. 15, 2021 10:16 AM EDT

A nurse sanitizes her hands at a COVID-19 ward of a government run hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, May 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
Political turmoil returns as Nepal suffers worst COVID surge

By Binaj Gurubacharya May. 13, 2021 02:22 AM EDT

Family members watch as Nepalese army personnel in PPE suits salute to pay tribute to the COVID-19 victims before cremating their bodies near Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu, Nepal, Friday, May 7, 2021. Across the border from a devastating surge in India, doctors in Nepal warned Friday of a major crisis as daily coronavirus cases hit a record and hospitals were running out of beds and oxygen. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
US allows diplomats, embassy families to leave Nepal

May. 07, 2021 08:50 PM EDT

FILE - In this May 5, 2021, file photo, Nepalese men in personal protective suits cremate the bodies of COVID-19 victims while others extend the crematorium as the number of deaths rise near Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu, Nepal. Authorities extended a lockdown in the capital Kathmandu and surrounding districts by another week as the Himalayan nation recorded the highest COVID-19 daily infections and deaths. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha, File)
Doctors in Nepal warn of major crisis as virus cases surge

By Binaj Gurubacharya May. 07, 2021 05:59 AM EDT

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks in front of the 94-foot-long, 21,000-pound model of a blue whale, wearing a bandage, at the COVID-19 vaccination site, in the Milstein Family Hall of Ocean Life, at the American Museum of Natural History, in New York, Friday, April 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
The Latest: Health panel urges restarting J&J vaccinations

By The Associated Press Apr. 23, 2021 12:51 AM EDT

FILE - In this May 27, 2019, file photo, birds fly as Mount Everest is seen from Namche Bajar, Solukhumbu district, Nepal. Nepal is expecting hundreds of foreigners to attempt to scale the highest Himalayan peaks despite the pandemic, an official said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha, File)
Nepal expecting hundreds of climbers despite pandemic

Mar. 17, 2021 05:40 AM EDT

Maggie Sedidi, left, a 59-year-old nurse at Soweto's Chris Hani Baragwanath hospital, reads a medical questioner before receiving her dose of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center in Soweto, South Africa, Friday, March 5, 2021. Sedidi is optimistic: "By next year, or maybe the year after, I really do hope that people will be able to begin returning to normal life." (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
After pandemic year, weary world looks back — and forward

By Michelle R. Smith And Andrew Meldrum Mar. 10, 2021 12:03 AM EST

An empty classroom at Great Academy Ashton, as the school prepares for its reopening on March 8 after the latest lockdown curb the spread of coronavirus, in Ashton-Under-Lyne, England, Thursday, March 4, 2021. The school for approximately 1300 pupils aged 11 to 16 in Greater Manchester will have to conduct around 450 tests per day on pupils and staff in the first 2 weeks after the return of students on Monday. (AP Photo Jon Super)
The Latest: Michigan makes homeless people vaccine-eligible

By The Associated Press Mar. 07, 2021 04:03 AM EST

FILE- In this Oct. 11, 2015 file photo, Nepal's Khadga Prasad Oli addresses parliament before being appointed as the new Prime Minister in Kathmandu, Nepal. Nepal’s supreme court on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021, ordered reinstating parliament that was dissolved by Prime Minister Oli that is likely to push the Himalayan nation to a political crisis. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha, File)
Nepal's Supreme Court orders reinstatement of Parliament

By Binaj Gurubacharya Feb. 23, 2021 08:47 AM EST

Nepalese health workers prepare to administer COVID-19 vaccine to hospital staff at Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. Thousands of health workers lined up across Nepal to get the coronavirus vaccine Wednesday as the Himalayan nation began its campaign to get the population vaccinated within three months. Neighboring India gifted Nepal 1 million doses of the AstraZeneca-Oxford University vaccine manufactured under license by the Serum Institute of India. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
Health workers become 1st to get COVID-19 vaccine in Nepal

By Binaj Gurubacharya Jan. 27, 2021 02:52 AM EST

A Nepalese mountain guide uses his phone at the Seven Summit trekking agency in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, Nov. 2, 2020. Nepal has reopened its peaks and trails for foreign adventurers in hopes of providing much needed income for hundreds of thousands of guides, porters and workers who have been unemployed for months because of the pandemic. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
Facing pandemic economic woes, Nepal reopens to adventurers

By Binaj Gurubacharya Nov. 03, 2020 12:00 AM EST