COVID-19 brings students back to Himalayan villages with public health messages

COVID-19 brings students back to Himalayan villages with public health messages

In Nepal’s second-largest city, Pokhara, when students’ classes were cancelled due to COVID-19 in March, medical student Gyalsten Gurung, 25, left the city. He returned to Shimen, the remote village where he was born in the Himalaya’s Upper Dolpo region. There, he taught villagers about good hand hygiene, social distancing…