NEPAL FACING SECOND STAGE OF CORONA INFECTION

Nepal is in lockdown to defend the pandemics of Corona. It is time for doing good to check pandemics for all. So, people also should obey all measures of precautions.

    After being two-month-long stability the first stage of corona infection, Nepal has entered the second stage that is the stage before the community infection of coronavirus. In total nine people infected so far in Nepal, the first case was identified on 15 February. The hope to check in the first stage is become fade is unlucky for Nepal. Among 9 cases one has already got well as cured.

 The meaning of the second stage is the risk of infection is growing a little high, although, the situation is not still out of control. Nepal had not any other option beyond the lockdown of the country and declares it on 24 March. It was a hard decision but also a compulsory step for a small and poor country to protect the people from the corona.

The brightness of the hues of lives is seen fade in ongoing lockdown against fatal Corona infection.  The nature of Nepali society is traditionally based on reciprocity. Their days open along with exchanging of neighbors' experiences but the imposition of lockdown is hampering the basic character of Nepalese daily routine, especially in the urban areas. Although, urban life is very scheduled by time except depending on the professionally agriculture-based lifestyle in the villages. Anyway, the people of urban also manage a bit of time to talk with their neighbors. This is why the fear of epidemic is affecting urban people than rural.

In the rural area, it is not directly affecting the daily life of people at this time, however people often talking about coronavirus. It indicates their fear of corona infection. They have a concern about their relatives who are in foreign countries or urban Nepal for the purpose of earning money or education. People are meeting each other and talking about their contemporary issues. Because of rural Nepal is relatively safe from the corona infection and few recorded cases of infections are seen in them who recently came from foreign countries.

     

 The people are following the lockdown and they are passing time in their residences for the last two weeks. It is very hard to pass time without doing anything. Economic activities are stopped; a few essential supplies are running but not smoothly. Roads are empty except police vans and ambulances. People are losing their earning activities; lower classes need assistance for food and security. About 25 percent of people still under the poverty line in the country, this class in urban is in sever problem this time.

The eighteen hundred kilometer-long border between Nepal and India was traditionally and publicly open but it is sealed during the lockdown. India also is running under lockdown to prevent infection of coronavirus this time, meantime thousands of Nepali laborers in India returning home are stranded behind the borderline is a painful issue for Nepal. Such people who had already come to Nepal, among them few have corona infected. India and Nepal both have reciprocally decided to manage stranded people in the border, to protect the man as the basis of where is who. India also suffering from the growing corona infection is also a concern for Nepal.

 Nepal should follow the precautions to check to go into the community Infection. It is a very serious task but there is no other option for the country.