The direct effects of Covid-19 might be bad, but the potential economic shock can be catastrophic.

Migrant workers have contributed to keeping the economy afloat. Now it's time for the government to do its part.

Measures taken to fight this pandemic show that our approach to policymaking must be humanistic as much as it should be scientific.

Policymakers must do everything in their power to prevent overstretched health systems from battling two epidemics simultaneously.

The world is witnessing a pandemic but governments everywhere have failed to live up to the challenge.

The government should urge all institutions to draft business continuity and disaster recovery plans.

Wall-to-wall coverage of the pandemic leaves no attention to spare for political opposition parties and movements.

The government needs to act to neutralise the threats to food and nutrition security from the lockdown.

We must learn to live with uncertainty, rather than allowing ourselves to be held captive by it.

The lockdown may be easy for some to bear, but daily wage workers are suffering.

Narrow nationalism will not protect us from global crises. But will we learn from the current pandemic?

Already known as the ‘factory of the world’, the powerhouse may yet be aided by the Covid-19 pandemic to adopt a larger role in the global arena.

Just as a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, so the failure of a single country to contain Covid-19 heightens the global risk.

The US response has been stymied by disagreement over the role of the government and the private sector.

Today's European leaders have been shaped by a decade of austerity, refugee crises, and America's denouement as a global hegemon.

There is a serious information gap regarding the extent of gravity of the pandemic as well as the realistic capacity of the market.

These are the times to make friends and work in tandem with them.

Conducting technology awareness programmes for locals is a sustainable way to expand the market for tech firms.

The coronavirus outbreak has laid bare the incapacity of the leaders to make their population feel secure.

Nepalis are complacent, and that can create major problems as more test positive for the novel coronavirus.