Priests carry the Seto Machindranath, Nepal's patron deity, during a charriot festival in Kathmandu on April 20, 2021. (Photo by Prakash Mathema/AFP Photo)





Family members mourn a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) victim as the country recorded the highest daily increase in death since the pandemic began, in Kathmandu, Nepal on May 3, 2021. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





A figure of Laxmi Narayan that was stolen in 1984 is brought to Patan Durbar Square by officials from the Department of Archeology in Lalitpur, Nepal on Friday, April 16, 2021. The idol was worshipped at Patan till 1984 and went missing which was later traced to a museum in USA. (Photo by Skanda Gautam/ZUMA Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A man arranges sweet plates for devotees to break their fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan at the Kashmiri Mosque in Kathmandu on April 16, 2021. (Photo by Prakash Mathema/AFP Photo)





A family member throws a garland to pay tributes to her relatives who died of COVID-19 at a crematorium near Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu, Nepal, Friday, May 7, 2021. Across the border from a devastating surge in India, doctors in Nepal warned Friday of a major crisis as daily coronavirus cases hit a record and hospitals were running out of beds and oxygen. (Photo by Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo)





A COVID-19 patient receives oxygen in an ambulance outside an emergency ward of a hospital as he waits for an intensive care bed to be allotted in Kathmandu, Nepal, Friday, May 7, 2021. (Photo by Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo)





A Nepalese paramedic moves away an empty oxygen cylinder as a COVID-19 patient lies on a bed outside an emergency ward of a government run hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal, Friday, May 7, 2021. (Photo by Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo)





Family members wait to receive the body of a COVID-19 victim outside a government run hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal, Friday, May 7, 2021. (Photo by Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo)





Nepalese paramedics treat a COVID-19 patient outside an emergency ward of a government run hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal, Friday, May 7, 2021. (Photo by Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo)





Family members watch as Nepalese army personnel in PPE suits salute to pay tribute to the COVID-19 victims before cremating their bodies near Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu, Nepal, Friday, May 7, 2021. (Photo by Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo)





Men wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) carry a body of a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) victim at the crematorium as the country recorded the highest daily increase in deaths since the pandemic began, in Kathmandu, Nepal on May 3, 2021. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





A man wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) cremates a body of a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) victim at the crematory as the country recorded the highest daily increase in deaths since the pandemic began, in Kathmandu, Nepal on May 3, 2021. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





A street vendor sits next to an abandoned ambulance outside the premises of a hospital as the major second coronavirus wave surges in Kathmandu, Nepal on May 4, 2021. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





Members of Nepal army personnel wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) rest on a vehicle as they wait to transport a body of a person who died from coronavirus disease (COVID-19) to the crematorium, while Nepal is overwhelmed by a COVID-19 surge as India's outbreak spreads across South Asia, in Kathmandu, Nepal on May 5, 2021. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





Members of Nepal army personnel wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) carry the body of a person who died from coronavirus disease (COVID-19) towards the vehicle, while Nepal is overwhelmed by a COVID-19 surge as India's outbreak spreads across South Asia, in Kathmandu, Nepal on May 5, 2021. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





Family members of a person who died from coronavirus disease (COVID-19) mourn outside the hospital while Nepal is overwhelmed by a COVID-19 surge, as India's outbreak spreads across South Asia, in Kathmandu, Nepal on May 5, 2021. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





Workers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) work to extend the crematorium as the number of people who died from coronavirus disease (COVID-19) surges, as India's outbreak spreads across South Asia, in Kathmandu, Nepal on May 5, 2021. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





Men wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) prepare the body of a COVID-19 victim for cremation on the bank of Bagmati River, as the number of deaths increases amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Kathmandu, Nepal on May 3, 2021. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





Nepalese relatives of a person who died with COVID-19 mourn before the cremation at Pashupati Electric Crematorium in Kathmandu, Nepal, 02 May 2021. As the number of COVID-19 cases continues to soar, the Ministry of Health and Population has issued a notice saying that it now has become 'next to impossible' for hospitals to provide beds for COVID-19 patients. (Photo by Narendra Shrestha/EPA/EFE)





Nepalese men wearing face masks ride on a bicycle in Kathmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, May 5, 2021. Authorities extended lockdown in the capital Kathmandu and surrounding districts by another week on Wednesday as the Himalayan nation recorded the highest COVID-19 daily infection and death. (Photo by Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo)