The Nepal Ambulance Service (phone no 102) has made necessary preparation for operating their service in Kathmandu Valley to carry coronavirus infected people. In collaboration with Kathmandu Metropolitan City, five ambulances have been prepared for the same. An understanding was reached to provide the service from today after the Ministry

Chief Minister of Bagmati State Dormani Poudel has said that a foundation has been prepared to stop coronavirus from taking a pandemic proportion in Nepal. Issuing a message today, he said that the COVID-19 would not take the form of pandemic thanks to the matured, far-sighted and effective steps taken

Minister for Health and Population Bhanubhakta Dhakal has said that the treatment of the COVID-19 infected patients would be carried out only from the dedicated hospitals. In an interaction at the Ministry with a team that returned after inspecting six hospitals about their ongoing preparation and for the treatment of

The main opposition party, Nepali Congress has launched a web-based self-testing application for COVID-19. The application was developed in consultation with specialist doctors, according to party spokesperson Biswa Prakash Sharma. The web-based application available at www.nepalicongress.org/covid19/ was developed by the party’s Central Information, Communications and Publicity Department. The website was

-Narayan Dhungana The Home Ministry has today launched a website in a bid to disseminate latest information about coronavirus. Named ‘COVID-19 integrated information system and quarantine monitoring system’, it is developed by an organisation named ‘Aafno Nepal’ with technical and financial assistances from Smart Telecom and Pro AMAR International and

The Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ), an umbrella organisation of journalists, has appealed to the entire communications sector to fulfill its major responsibility in the containment of COVID-19 pandemic. In a press statement today, FNJ chair Govinda Acharya has called on all FNJ state committees, associate organisations , district and

The Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ), an umbrella organisation of journalists, has appealed to the entire communications sector to fulfill its major responsibility in the containment of COVID-19 pandemic. In a press statement today, FNJ chair Govinda Acharya has called on all FNJ state committees, associate organisations , district and

So far nine cases testing positive for coronavirus ( COVID-19) have been confirmed in Nepal and of them four are in the Sudurpashim state. Two male and one female in Kailai and Kanchanpur districts were tested positive for the virus on Sunday, raising alarming level. It has posed further challenge

The Rastriya Janata Party (RJP) Nepal has demanded the government provide adequate medical appliances for the Birgunj-based Narayani Sub-Regional Hospital. The Hospital which was established almost during the time of the setup of country’s oldest Bir Hospital does not have coronavirus test-kits. Nor does it have ventilator and CT scan

Arghakhanchi has reported a pregnancy-related death. Devi BK, 29, of Paathrawang of Sandhikharka municipality-9 died following heavy bleeding on Sunday evening. She complained of bleeding all of a sudden and breathed her last while being taken to the District Hospital, Sadhikharkha, said a local Basanta Kumar BK . She is