A man wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) runs past the burning pyres during a mass cremation of people, who died from the coronavirus, at the crematorium, in Kathmandu, Nepal on May 11, 2021. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





Nepalese people line up to get inoculated against the coronavirus in Kathmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, June 8, 2021. Nepal resumed its stalled coronavirus vaccination campaign on Tuesday with 1 million doses given by China after the Himalayan nation made international pleas for help with a shortage of doses. (Photo by Bikram Rai/AP Photo)





Veteran Sherpa guide Kami Rita, center, who returned from the mountains on a helicopter arrives at the airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, May 25, 2021. The record-holding Sherpa climber halted his attempt to scale Mount Everest for a 26th time because of a bad dream but plans to try again next year. (Photo by Bikram Rai/AP Photo)





A Nepalese woman sits after getting inoculated against the coronavirus in Kathmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, June 8, 2021. (Photo by Bikram Rai/AP Photo)





Policemen stand guard as Nepalese devotees pull a chariot during the Rato Machindranath chariot festival in Lalitpur, Nepal, Saturday, May 15, 2021. A truncated version of a Hindu chariot festival took place in Nepal's capital on Saturday amid strict COVID-19 restrictions, following an agreement between organizers and authorities that prevented a repeat of violent confrontations between police and protesters at last year's festival. (Photo by Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo)





Nepalese devotees pull a chariot during the Rato Machindranath chariot festival in Lalitpur, Nepal, Saturday, May 15, 2021. (Photo by Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo)





A woman gives money to her family members during Eid-al-Fitr, which marks the end of Islamic holy fasting month of Ramadan, amid the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic in Kathmandu on May 14, 2021. (Photo by Prakash Mathema/AFP Photo)





Members of the Nepal Army take rest after cremating the bodies of people who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as the country recorded the highest daily increase in deaths since the pandemic began, at the crematorium, in Kathmandu, Nepal on May 9, 2021. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





A patient receives oxygen as she waits outside the passage of a hospital due to a lack of free beds inside the hospital for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients, as the second major coronavirus wave surges in Kathmandu, Nepal, May 10, 2021. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





Ayub Rai carries an oxygen cylinder for a patient after refiling them at a factory, amidst the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) surge as India's outbreak spreads across South Asia, in Kathmandu, Nepal May 9, 2021. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





A woman holds on to the oxygen cylinders for a patient after refiling them at a factory, amidst the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) surge as India's outbreak spreads across South Asia, in Kathmandu, Nepal on May 9, 2021. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





Family members stand in the rain outside the crematorium as they wait for the bodies of their relatives, who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), to arrive at the crematorium, in Kathmandu, Nepal on May 11, 2021. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





A member of Nepal Army wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) rests after carrying the bodies of people who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at the crematorium, in Kathmandu, Nepal on May 11, 2021. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





Members of Nepal Army wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) carry the body of a person, who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in the rain at the crematorium, in Kathmandu, Nepal on May 11, 2021. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





A body of a person, who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), lies on the pyre at the crematorium, in Kathmandu, Nepal May 11, 2021. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





Health workers carry Ramjee Kunwar, 65, a COVID-19 patient from a helicopter to an ambulance after being airlifted from Pokhara to Kathmandu due to health complications, amid the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Kathmandu, Nepal on May 30, 2021. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





Smoke rises as firefighters try to douse a fire on a pile of wires at the premises of Environment Health and Health Care Waste Management Section in Kathmandu, Nepal on June 3, 2021. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





Tsang Yin-hung, 45, center, of Hong Kong who scaled Mount Everest from the base camp in 25 hours and 50 minutes, and became the fastest female climber and her team wave to the media as they arrive in Kathmandu, Nepal, Sunday, May 30, 2021. The Hong Kong teacher and retired attorney from Chicago who became the oldest American to scale Mount Everest, on Sunday returned safely from the mountain where climbing teams have been struggling with bad weather and a coronavirus outbreak. (Photo by Bikram Rai/AP Photo)





Paramedics get ready to load dead bodies of COVID-19 victims onto an ambulance for cremation at a government run hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, May 12, 2021. Political turmoil has returned to Nepal, which has had eight different governments in a decade and is experiencing its worst COVID-19 surge with acute shortages of health facilities and oxygen for patients. (Photo by Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo)





A COVID-19 patient receives oxygen outside an emergency ward at a government run hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal, Thursday, May 13, 2021. (Photo by Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo)