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‘India is a horrifying preview,’ says Red Cross as Nepal’s Covid-19 cases rise | South China Morning Post

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Amid a second wave of coronavirus infections, Nepal hit a grim record with 9,196 new Covid-19 cases on May 7, 2021. Experts fear the country may mimic the pandemic catastrophe in India, the second-worst hit nation after the US. Nepal’s health care system is under intense pressure, and the government has been critici…

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