With Dasain only two weeks way, people in Kathmandu are fully in festive mode, and many are forgoing safety precautions even as Nepal recorded the highest ever daily total for COVID-19 cases.

Of the 4,364 new cases nationwide on Thursday, 2,540 were in Kathmandu Valley. Twelve people have died in the past 24 hours, bringing the total fatalities to 590.

The Dasain Bazar in Asan and different parts of the capital this week saw huge crowds shopping in narrow alleyways, many of them without masks and even those with masks wore them around their chins.

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