Christoph Gsteu

The cases of corona infections, hunger, but also suicides are currently rising dramatically in Nepal!
Thanks to your help we were able to provide almost 4000 people with food for one month! Food packages for 20 Euro / 21 CHF feed a family of five for one month!
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Nepal until June 7, 2020 is 3235 and 13 people have already died from this virus. Almost every day more than 200-300 more cases are discovered. …

Officially there are only 99 Corona cases in Nepal, but if you don’t test, you won’t find anything. We strongly doubt these official numbers, and also today’s decision of the Nepalese. government’s decision to postpone the curfew again until May 18 (a total of two months) reinforces this assumption. The people are not allowed to work, nor to go to the fields to harvest. Hunger is rampant and far more dangerous than the virus itself. But we try everything to help: our team from Nepal managed to get the coveted exit permits, no easy task, but it was done!

As of 22 April 2020, Nepal has confirmed 45 cases of COVID-19 disease, 7 of them have been recovered. Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital is the designated primary hospital for the treatment of COVID-19; isolation wards, makeshift hospitals and quarantine centres have been established throughout the country.

Nepal Public Health Laboratory in Kathmandu was the only laboratory capable of testing for the disease as of 15 March 2020; laboratory capabilities were later expanded to other major cities…