{"id":28260,"date":"2021-02-11T15:30:04","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T06:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/feb\/11\/its-as-if-theres-no-covid-nepal-defies-pandemic-amid-a-broken-economy"},"modified":"2021-02-11T15:30:04","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T06:30:04","slug":"its-as-if-theres-no-covid-nepal-defies-pandemic-amid-a-broken-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28260","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s as if there\u2019s no Covid\u2019: Nepal defies pandemic amid a broken economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cases appear low and sports venues are packed, but protests are on the rise as jobs are lost and personal debt soars<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Traffic jams and soaring pollution levels are back. Political leaders are organising mass rallies, far more focused on fighting each other than any virus. If poorer Nepalis are struggling with the dire economic fallout from Covid-19, on the surface, at least, it appears daily life in the capital, Kathmandu, is back to normal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s as if nothing has happened. The nightclubs are crowded. <a href=\"https:\/\/thehimalayantimes.com\/kathmandu\/local-levels-given-authority-to-reopen-schools\">Schools and colleges are reopening<\/a>. Sports venues are full. It doesn\u2019t seem like there is any Covid,\u201d says Sameer Mani Dixit, a public health specialist. \u201cIt defies logic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/feb\/11\/its-as-if-theres-no-covid-nepal-defies-pandemic-amid-a-broken-economy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cases appear low and sports venues are packed, but protests are on the rise as jobs are lost and personal debt soarsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageTraffic jams and soaring pollution levels are back. Political leaders are or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1066,847,59,566,53,241,958,1888,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-employment","category-global-development","category-global-health","category-human-rights","category-nepal","category-poverty","category-remittances","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28261,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28260\/revisions\/28261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}