Corona’s third wave: Leaders in isolation

The third wave of coronavirus infection has already started in Nepal. The third wave has started in Nepal along with the spread of the Omicron variant of Corona. But this time, the leaders of the political parties are getting infected. The leaders who survived the first and second waves are sitting in isolation after being infected in the third wave.

Dozens of top Maoist leaders, including Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda, Narayan Kaji Shrestha and Education Minister Devendra Poudel, have been infected. Most of them have contracted corona at the Maoist central office. Most of the leaders who attended the 8th General Convention of the Maoists and the subsequent meeting of the Central Working
Committee have contracted corona. Similarly, top leaders of the Nepali Congress including
Gyanendra Bahadur Karki, Dina Upadhyay, Uma Regmi and Indra Baniya, who are also the
information minister, have been infected.

Top leaders of the CPN (Unified Socialists) including Madhav Kumar Nepal, Ram Kumar
Bhattarai and Kalyani Khadka have contracted corona while top leaders of UML including Vice President Bishnu Poudel and General Secretary Shankar Pokharel have been infected.

Corona infected leaders are in isolation. However, some leaders who met and sat in the same meeting before the infection was confirmed contracted corona. Leaders including Prime Minister and Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba, who were present at the all-party meeting attended by Prachanda and Madhav Kumar, have escaped.

Leaders and journalists who have participated in the event, which was organized in a crowded manner following the standards of public health, are now suffering from corona infection.

 

By Muna Chand

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