COVID19
Photo Essays
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The Nepal government’s announcement of a lockdown threw millions of lives in disarray, perhaps none more so than that of migrant workers looking to return home.
How will we remember 2020? The Record is republishing stories from a curated series of visual stories commissioned by photo.circle that presents the work of visual storytellers based across Nepal who began documenting their communities since the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic.
When Nepal enforced a nationwide lockdown on March 24, 2020 in response to the spreading Covid-19 pandemic, thousands of migrants were stuck outside of the country’s borders with no way to get back home. Nepali migrant workers in India began to return home in droves as the pandemic shut down industries, factories and most places of employment.
Over just one weekend at the end of May, 19,000 Nepalis crossed the border into Nepal at Gauriphanta in Kailali. New arrivals are sent to quarantine and according to Narendra Karki, chief of the Health Division at the provincial Ministry of Social Development, 37,000 people have been quarantined since the lockdown was enforced. However, only 1,500 of those who arrived have been given Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) tests.
This story was produced for the Nepal Photo Project with support from the photo.circle 2020 grant.
Explainers
3 min read
Co-passengers on the flights taken by the latest Covid19 positive patients pose probable risk to public health safety due to the absence of strict quarantine measures imposed by TIA
Features
11 min read
Covid-19 managed to break all geographical boundaries to reach the remote village of Lalu – and the couple who operate its only private school.
COVID19
News
5 min read
The government’s recent stringent measures seem to be a response to more and more public figures getting infected
Explainers
6 min read
In Nepal, only one latent case of Coronavirus has been reported so far, but widespread fears of a possible outbreak have already begun to show impact on Nepal’s economy.
Books
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Mallika Shakya’s new book explains the “death” of the Nepali garment industry
Features
12 min read
Kesang Tseten, in documenting these grueling stories, has done his part by successfully bringing the experience of the Nepali migrant worker to our attention, and has thus recorded history in unforgettable images.
COVID19
Features
7 min read
Many schools across the country have been charging full fees despite providing no extra facilities.
Perspectives
9 min read
President Bidya Bhandari’s blatant partisanship has been detrimental not only to democracy but also to the idea of the new republic.
