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Oli government has gravely flopped in handling the coronavirus crisis, says Nepali Congress. The Nepali Congress has criticized the Oli government for not being able to handle the coronavirus pandemic crisis in Nepal and propose a memorandum secured from all states to PM KP Sharma Oli, which was decided during a Central Working Committee meeting on Monday.
After the meeting, Ramesh Lekhak, a member of the committee stated that the committee also raised concerns about the Oli government’s failure. The Congress party reasoned that the Oli government has failed to control the corruption in medical supplies acquisition, and administering sufficient medical supplies on time. The Congress party added that the government also couldn’t manage sufficient testing, contact tracing, and implementing quarantine facilities and more coronavirus testing kits on time. The private sectors have likewise been censuring the legislature for just expanding the lockdown and not doing much regarding receiving different measures to battle the Covid-19 pandemic and socio-economic crisis too.
Challenges to Nepal’s Post-Pandemic Economic Recovery. Business News Nepal. Post-Pandemic World Provides Opportunity for Eco-Responsible Living. The Coronavirus pandemic and its subsequent lockdown has certainly impacted the lives of people around the world.
From halting social life to disrupting the global economy, measures to contain the virus transmission have caused unprecedented ramifications across all sections of society. However, amid the global health emergency, a significant decrease in air and water pollution in various parts of the world has come as a ray of hope for the protection of the environment.
The substantial decrease in carbon footprint has provided multiple benefits to the ecosystem. According to experts, the pandemic is also likely to reshape consumer behaviour towards an environmentally friendly lifestyle. People are using the Coronavirus lockdown as a restart button towards being an eco-friendly consumer by integrating sustainable environmental conservation efforts in their daily lifestyle. Growing Your Own Fruits and Vegetables: Shop Sustainably Adopting Green Lifestyle. Cyclone Amphan: Huge Loss to Life and Property in India and Bangladesh. Super cyclone Amphan made landfall on Wednesday casing devastation in multiple areas across eastern India and Bangladesh.
The extremely severe cyclonic storm brought wild rains and strong winds, destroying thousands of homes and taking the lives of over 80 people in both countries. Millions of houses were left without power and telecommunication for several hours. Visuals from parts of West Bengal hit by the cyclone show ferocious storm flooding roads and uprooting trees and electricity poles. Nepal Showcases a Virtual Art Exhibition During the Covid-19 Pandemic. In Nepal on May 14, there was a virtual art exhibition by artists expressing the Covid-19 outbreak.
The title of the show was ‘Tangential Stress’ which was sorted out by the Museum of Nepali Art (MoNA). At the virtual art exhibition, one of the paintings by Ranju Yadav, depicted a pregnant woman, shielding her womb with her hands. Sangeeta Thapa, chief of Siddhartha Art Gallery expressed that it felt like the painting was portraying the pandemic that could end up being threatening to pregnant women. The art community has suffered gravely during many crises, she expressed. Amid the nationwide lockdown, the art fraternity has canceled all exhibitions or either postponed it. Thapa included that the Nepali art community had just barely started to gather some strength following the massive earthquake and now they are facing the challenge of coronavirus.
Without any shows and sales, numerous art galleries might close down as amid the pandemic art is not a necessity. SC Issues Interim Order to Government to Accelerate PCR Testing. As Coronavirus cases continue to surge in Nepal, the Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the KP Sharma Oli government to intensify the range of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing among the citizens who have shown symptoms of infections from the disease.
A single bench consisting of Justice Manoj Kumar Sharma was hearing the writ petition filed by lawyer Kalam Bahadur Khatri, demanding the government to speed up PCR testing. The writ petition reportedly also alleged that the administration has not been working adequately for the protection of the general public from the novel Coronavirus disease. Besides Kalam Bahadur Khatri, advocates Kritinath Sharma, Padam Bahadur Khatri, Nawaraj Pandey, Santosh Bhandari, and Sujan Nepal also made their cases on their requirements during the SC hearing on the matter.
As per media reports, Nepal has been performing more rapid diagnostic tests than PCR tests which have led to a surge in the number of infected cases. Donald Trump Walks out of News Briefing After Confrontation with Reporter. US President Donald Trump has been under facing outrage of Asia Americans after he had an unpleasant exchange with a CBS reporter during a press briefing at the White House on Monday.
During a press conference at the WH rose garden on Monday, Trump argued with two journalists and ended the briefing abruptly. Amid the briefing, Weijia Jiang, an Asian-American journalist working with CBS News, had questioned the US President about his claims over the rate of Coronavirus testing being done in America, asking, “Why is this a global competition when, every day, Americans are still losing their lives?” Answering the question, Trump told her to ‘ask China’: “They’re losing their lives everywhere in the world. And maybe that’s a question you should ask China. Don’t ask me, ask China that question.” While Trump immediately called on another reporter for a question, she was paused by the CBS reporter who retorted to the President, asking: “Sir, why are you saying that to me, specifically?”
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