Yet the caretaker government isn’t in a position to make major decisions to bring the country through the crisis. Government hospitals are treating patients on corridor floors, in beds on verandas and in waiting rooms while relatives line up to get oxygen. Grande Hospital posted a notice that it wouldn’t accept new COVID-19 patients because the 100 oxygen cylinders per day the government provided was barely enough. Several hospitals in Kathmandu have stopped taking in new patients, declaring they have run out of beds and oxygen for patients. ![]() The Himalayan nation has seen its highest new cases and deaths for the past few days, on Tuesday recording 9,483 new cases and 225 deaths, a near-30-fold increase in infections in one month. It is likely to be weeks before a new government is formed while the country struggles to cope with the pandemic. No political party now has a majority, and they’re unlikely to agree to a coalition government anytime soon. ![]() Khadga Prasad Oli became prime minister in 2018 with strong support from two-thirds of Parliament, but two splits in his ruling party this year helped push him out of office Monday.
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