Pandey Basu Dev, Ngwe Tun Mya Myat, Pandey Kishor, Dumre Shyam Prakash, Nwe Khin Mya, Shah Yogendra, Culleton Richard, Takamatsu Yuki, Costello Anthony, Morita Kouichi
Department of Molecular Epidemiology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki 852-8523, Japan.
Department of Virology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki 852-8523, Japan.
Life (Basel). 2022 Jul 20;12(7):1087. doi: 10.3390/life12071087.
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first COVID-19 case was reported in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. In March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. The first COVID-19 case in Nepal was reported in January 2020 in a Nepalese man who had returned from Wuhan to Nepal. This study aims to evaluate the government of Nepal's (GoN) response to the COVID-19 pandemic and explore ways to prevent COVID-19 and other pandemic diseases in the future. As of May 2022, a total of 979,140 cases and 11,951 deaths associated with COVID-19 have been reported in Nepal. To prevent the spread of the virus, the GoN initiated various preventive and control measures, including lockdown strategies. The effects of COVID-19 are expected to persist for many years; the best strategies a resource-limited country such as Nepal can implement to control pandemic diseases such as COVID-19 in the pre-vaccine stage are to increase testing, tracing, and isolation capacity.
2019冠状病毒病（COVID-19）由严重急性呼吸综合征冠状病毒2（SARS-CoV-2）引起。2019年12月，中国武汉报告了首例COVID-19病例。2020年3月，世界卫生组织（WHO）宣布COVID-19为全球大流行病。尼泊尔的首例COVID-19病例于2020年1月报告，患者为一名从武汉返回尼泊尔的尼泊尔男子。本研究旨在评估尼泊尔政府（GoN）对COVID-19大流行的应对措施，并探索未来预防COVID-19和其他大流行疾病的方法。截至2022年5月，尼泊尔共报告了979140例与COVID-19相关的病例和11951例死亡病例。为防止病毒传播，尼泊尔政府启动了各种预防和控制措施，包括封锁策略。预计COVID-19的影响将持续多年；在疫苗接种前阶段，像尼泊尔这样资源有限的国家控制COVID-19等大流行疾病的最佳策略是提高检测、追踪和隔离能力。
