Nepal imposes 15-day lockdown amid surge in coronavirus cases

A Nepalese woman walks on a deserted street during the first day of lockdown in Kathmandu, Nepal (Niranjan Shrestha/AP)

Offices were closed, markets were shuttered and vehicles were forced off the streets in Nepal’s capital as authorities imposed a 15-day lockdown because of spiking cases of Covid-19.

The lockdown was imposed in most of the Himalayan nation’s major cities and towns.