Kathmandu, Aug. 14 -- This is the second installment of a series by the Nepal-Johns Hopkins University Covid-19 Vaccine Advocacy Group. The first part titled'Once Nepal gets vaccines, it has to be fairly distributed'appeared inNepali Times10 July.

Nepal has undergone two 'waves' of Covid-19 infection. In infectious disease jargon, waves of infection describe the curve of an outbreak, referring to a rise and fall in the number of cases.

There was a sustained period of relatively low numbers of new infections between the first wave which ran through mid-October to mid-November of 2020 and the second wave that started in mid-April of 2021.

Thesecond wave ravagedmost South Asian countries and was noted for its severity and transmissibility...