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Fighting discrimination, raising spirits

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Bara, Nepal:, Sabina Thapa remembers when she first started to suspect that she may have acquired COVID-19. A few weeks ago, she had developed a slight fever, followed by some difficulty in breathing. “This was similar to what I had heard were the symptoms,” says the 24-year-old resident of Jeetpursimara in Nepal’s south. “Even though I wasn’t sure how it had…

On the COVID-19 battleground

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“It was like having to enter a flooded river with no idea of whether you would make it to the other side. We just had to jump in and do our best to swim.” This is how Hema Thapa, nurse administrator at the Narayani Hospital in Birgunj in Parsa District in southern Nepal, describes her experience of being on the frontlines of the COVID-19 crisis at…

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