Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli on Saturday held talks with the Chief Ministers of all seven states to make ongoing lockdown order more effective for the control of the coronavirus. PM Oli talked to the Chief Ministers through video conferencing from the Action Room at Singha Durbar. On the occasion,
Many parts of the country are likely to witness rainfall along with thunderstorm, lightning and heavy winds this evening, due to the effect of the local winds. The Weather Forecasting Division has said that the effect of the local winds has activated pre-monsoon resulting in an increase in seasonal activities.
Nepal Communist Party (NCP) has wished for the speedy recovery of its central member and the Prime Minister’s foreign affairs advisor Rajan Bhattarai, who underwent primary angiography today. He is now under medical supervision at the Sahid Ganga Lal National Heart Centre, Bansbari. His health condition is normal, according to
hroat swab samples of 1,483 people quarantined in six districts in the Sudurpashim state have been collected and sent Kathmandu for coronavirus test. The test will be carried out at the Teku-based National Public Health Laboratory. The swab collections covered Doti, Kailali, Kanchanpur, Dadeldhura, Baitadi and Achham districts. According to
(Ram Bahadur Thapa) The COVID-19 rapid test has been undergoing here at local level. All local levels with have rapid tests on 971 suspected of COVID-19 in the district till coming Monday. Public Health Office in the district has informed that the coronavirus rapid test would be conducted on all
The available quantity of coronavirus testing kits in Kailali is not sufficient to conduct rapid test in the district as decided by the government. Earlier the government had decided to conduct the rapid coronavirus test in three districts including Kailali citing much vulnerability to the COVID-19 infection. But the given
The home-stays have been shut down in Banke and Bardiya districts due to ongoing lockdown. The home-stays run nearby the national parks in these districts are now dismal with no tourists turning up there following the stay home order government enforced to contain COVID-19. Though the home-stays were getting popularity
(Sher Bahadur Singh) Twenty six Indian labourers who were constructing Dadeldhura district hospital are now staying in Bhimduttanagar- based quarantine. They were heading home after the shutdown of activities owing to the threat of deadly COVID-19 outbreak but got stranded midway. However, the Indian nationals are found happy with the
Youths from Jumla and Kalikot districts who had reached Pyuthan for manual labour before the nationwide lockdown have returned Jumla following a five-day walk. They said they had no option to walking for days to get back to home after they were put out of work due to lockdown in
Two schools in Birendranagar have launched online classes in view of the lockdown in the country. The Sainik Boarding School and Children’s Paradise Secondary School have started the online classes to engage the students in study. Sainik School’s extra curriculum activities chief Betendra Dahal shared that the classes were for
