KATHMANDU, July 29 -- When Covid-19 cases started to fall last month and the government relaxed the lockdown, most public health experts warned that it was premature because not enough people had been vaccinated.
Sure enough, after falling steeply from 9,500 confirmed cases a day in mid-May to 1,500 cases, the daily caseload has now jumped to near 4,000 again. Daily fatalities dropped from 250 to 12 in mid-July, and have risen again to more than 30 a day. Active cases are once more passing 30,000. (See graph)
2AM is too late, Editorial
The current trend is similar to October 2020 at the peak of the first wave, when there were over 5,000 daily new cases and 30 deaths. The decline in second wave infections and fatalities have now stalled...