Tourists stranded in Mustang in the aftermath of lockdown enforced by the government as a measure to contain COVID-19 outbreak have been rescued. The Mustang District Administration Office, Annapurna Conservation Area Project, Area Conservation Office Jomsom, District Police Office and tourist police joined hands to rescue 51 foreign tourists stranded
People have started leaving Kathmandu Valley to their home towns by foot as the government has imposed lockdown since the past five days. More than 150 people, most of them from the Tarai belt, left the Valley, walking out through the Dakshinkali transit. As a result, Dakshinkali municipality has been
A plane of the state-owned Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) skidded off the runway as it was landing at the Nepalgunj airport today. The Y12 aircraft had left from the capital Kathmandu to collect swab samples of people suspected of carrying the Coronavirus. It may be noted that tests for COVID-19
Another person has been found carrying the Coronavirus, taking the total number of infected to five in the country. This was shared in the daily press briefing organized by the Ministry of Health and Population this afternoon. A 19-year-old girl from Baglung was found positive in the sample test carried
The national flag carrier Nepal Airline’s wide body airplane has flown for China to carry the medical equipment including test kits for prevention of COVID-19. Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Yogesh Bhattarai shared that the wide body plane 4171 left for Guangzhou, China at 12:30 PM today. The
The Gandaki State has only 200 sets of personal protective equipment (PPE) meant for medical workers when the country is struggling to contain the COVID-19. The medical protective gear is essential for medical/health workers who are on the frontline in combating the COVID-19 pandemic at this moment. The PPE is
Inmates in the district jail of Jhapa have submitted a memorandum to Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli urging for their release and safety in view of deadly coronavirus outbreak. The memorandum has been sent to the PM via District Administration Office. They have demanded the cutting remaining jail term also
A total of 366 people have been quarantined in Syangja when the entire country enters the fifth day of lockdown implemented by the government to prevent the spread of coronavirus pandemic. They are staying in quarantine centers set up at different locations of all 11 municipalities in the district- in
As many as 37 persons recently returned home from abroad have been kept in self-quarantine at Shahid Lakhan rural municipality. The municipality Chair Ramesh Babu Thapa shared that each ward office has kept record of new entrants to the village and urged them to stay in self-quarantine. He added that
Minister for Industry, Commerce and Supply, Lekhraj Bhatta, has stressed the need of cooperation from all sides to cope up with current crisis of COVID-19 pandemic in the country. At a time when the government has enforced weeklong nationwide lockdown for five days to contain the spread of coronavirus in
