Nepal government on Aug 18th made an announcement to shut down Kathmandu Valley again for a week amid spike in coronavirus cases.  The lockdown is to be in effect from midnight August 19 until midnight on Wednesday, August 26.

Kathmandu streets that are usually busy with life and traffic are almost empty.  All non-essential businesses including restaurants have been ordered to close.  Previously, the lockdown was first imposed in March and it was renewed several times.

As of this writing, according to COVID-19 Nepal, 592,418 have been tested with 31,117 confirmed cases, 18,350 recovery and 146 deaths.

All photos were taken by “Falgun Rana” on Saturday (Aug 22nd, 2020).  He used Olympus Pen-F camera  with Laowa 7.5mm f/2 lens to take these photos.

New Baneshwar
Crossbridge, Tudhikhel/Bagbazar
Tripureshwar (World Trade Building)
Thamel, Kathmandu
Thamel Center
Thamel, Kathmandu
Thamel
View of Singha Durbar from Bhadrikali.
Pulchowk.
Pulchowk Heights
Pako, New Road
New Road
New Baneshwar
Narsingh Chowk
Maitighar
Lagankhel
Kupondole
Durbarmargh.
Jawalakhel Chowk.
Towards Indrachowk.
Durbar Margh.
Durbarmargh.
Bishal Bazaar, New Road.
Bijuli Bazaar.
BICC Area, Baneshwar.
Bhotaity.
Basantpur.
Basantpur.
Bagmati River.
Bhadrakali/Army HQ
Babarmahal.
Bagbazaar.
Bagmati Bridge.
Bagmati River/Thapathali.

 

All these photos were captured by “Falgun Rana” who is a freestyle photographer based in Kathmandu, Nepal with a special interest in the Micro 4/3rds photography system.

All photos were taken with Olympus Pen-F camera  with Laowa 7.5mm f/2 lens.

He can be reached at falgunrana@yahoo.com. For more of his work please visit his page at Flickr.


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