Liberal Deuba becomes PM as Nepal struggles with COVID


FILE PHOTO: Sher Bahadur Deuba in Kathmandu, Nepal February 15, 2018. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar/File Photo

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal’s president appointed veteran liberal Sher Bahadur Deuba as prime minister on Tuesday, the president's office said, a day after the Supreme Court reinstated the parliament that was dissolved in May.

The new leader's immediate task is to procure COVID-19 vaccines and control the spread of the coronavirus that has infected more than 658,000 people and killed nearly 10,000 of them - figures experts say fail to reflect the true toll.

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