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Covid 19 coronavirus: Nepal s army digs mass graves to bury thousands of unclaimed bodies
14 May, 2021 02:20 AM
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A family member mourns next to the bodies of Covid-19 victims at a crematorium near Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu, Nepal on May 7. Photo / AP
A family member mourns next to the bodies of Covid-19 victims at a crematorium near Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu, Nepal on May 7. Photo / AP
Daily Telegraph UK
By: Joe Wallen and Rohin Kumar
Hundreds of Nepalese Covid-19 victims have been buried along its border with India in mass graves, some allegedly in no man s land, as Nepal s healthcare system collapses under a devastating second wave of the virus.
jatra as âcarnivalâ. For several months now Nepalâs leaders have been conducting their own
jatra, which has kept the Nepali media and citizens absorbed. Instead of protecting public health, Nepalâs prime minister, Khadga Prasad Oli, has been busy with his own theatrics. In between spreading falsehoods â such as telling Nepalis to manage Covid with herbal remedies such as turmeric water or guava leaf tea â he dissolved parliament, which was later restored by the supreme court. In his latest act of his solipsism, he called a confidence vote in his own government amid convoluted power struggles which would embarrass Byzantium. This week he lost that vote, with 124 members of the lower house of parliament voting against him and just 93 voting for him on 10 May.