COVID-19: Nepal's infection rate one of the highest in the world says UN

A United Nations report has found that Nepal's corona epidemic has the highest rate in the world. Our Nepal correspondent Sewa Bhattarai filed this story from Kathmandu.

A United Nations report has found that Nepal's corona epidemic has the highest rate in the world. Source: Sujan Shrestha / SOPA Images/Sipa USA

A COVID-19 patient receives oxygen outside an emergency ward at a government-run hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal on Thursday, 13May, 2021. Source: AP via AAP

A Nepali man waits to refill medical oxygen cylinders at an oxygen plant in Kathmandu, Nepal. Source: AP/Niranjan Shrestha