{"id":31995,"date":"2021-05-11T14:00:07","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T05:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/commentisfree\/2021\/may\/11\/nepal-says-its-covid-response-is-under-control-everyone-can-see-its-not-true"},"modified":"2021-05-11T14:00:07","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T05:00:07","slug":"nepal-says-its-covid-response-is-under-control-everyone-can-see-its-not-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31995","title":{"rendered":"Nepal says its Covid response is under control \u2013 everyone can see it\u2019s not true"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve watched from the UK as family and friends share increasingly desperate news. Nepal\u2019s leaders have ensured the lack of preparation<\/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>Waiting for India\u2019s Covid wave to break over Nepal has been as painful as it was inevitable. Now that it\u2019s happening, this country of 30 million people is even more hapless and unprepared than India seems to have been.<\/p>\n<p>My friend, Dr Rakshya Pandey, a pulmonary care doctor in Kathmandu, says that during her long shifts, the thought sometimes enters her mind: \u2018\u2018Where would I go if I get sick? Where would I take my mother if she gets the virus?\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/commentisfree\/2021\/may\/11\/nepal-says-its-covid-response-is-under-control-everyone-can-see-its-not-true\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve watched from the UK as family and friends share increasingly desperate news. Nepal\u2019s leaders have ensured the lack of preparationCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageWaiting for India\u2019s Covid wave to break over Nepal has bee&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2177,"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":[1066,59,62,914,241,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-global-development","category-india","category-infectious-diseases","category-nepal","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\/31995","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\/2177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31996,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31995\/revisions\/31996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}