Just 6 months ago, Nepal had just 1,500 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Nepal. Since then the number of confirmed cases has increased dramatically in the country. Globally, experts are warning that during winter COVID-19 cases will likely rise as gatherings move indoors.
The Government of Nepal has reported over 350 COVID-19 positive cases and two deaths due to this novel coronavirus as of this writing. To prevent the mass spread, Nepal has been under a national lockdown since March 24.
Code for Nepal has just launched the federal version of NepalMap, a web app that puts data about Nepal at your fingertips! Since 2016, this data portal has been the go-to source for many journalists, researchers, entrepreneurs and students; when they are looking for data or data visualizations.