The Latest: Nepal starts 15-day lockdown as COVID-19 spikes
Associated Press
1 / 2
A Nepalese woman walks on a deserted street during the first day of lockdown in Kathmandu, Nepal, Thursday, April 29, 2021. Offices were closed, markets were shuttered and vehicles were forced off the street in Nepal's capital on Thursday as authorities imposed a 15-day lockdown because of spiking cases of COVID-19 in the country. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)A bus driver shows the bus to passengers as women wait inside a bus to go back to their village a day prior to lockdown in Kathmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, April 28, 2021. Tens of thousands of people left the Nepalese capital Wednesday a day ahead of a 15-day lockdown imposed by the government because of spiking cases of COVID-19 in the country. The lockdown has been imposed in most of the major cities and towns in the country .(AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
A Nepalese woman walks on a deserted street during the first day of lockdown in Kathmandu, Nepal, Thursday, April 29, 2021. Offices were closed, markets were shuttered and vehicles were forced off the street in Nepal's capital on Thursday as authorities imposed a 15-day lockdown because of spiking cases of COVID-19 in the country. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)