– Chandrakala Bhandari People here fear coronavirus infection might enter with the entry of goods trucks through the Kakadbhitta transit point despite the lockdown and sealing of the Nepal-India border. More than 150 trucks have entered from the Kakadbhitta transit point since the announcement of the lockdown and sealing of

(Chandrakala Bhandari) The Armed Police Force (APF) has set up a number of temporary posts at Nepal-India border in order to strictly implement lockdown and stop the illegal entry via border. The APF tightened the security at the porous border in Jahpa district establishing additional 58 temporary posts. The APF

Executive Director of Jhapa-based B & C Hospital, Durga Prasain, has announced to give the hospital to the government for the treatment of COVID-19 patients. In a statement today, Prasain said he was ready to provide the hospital to the government if the latter wants to run stating that the

Kakarvitta, the major transit point in the eastern belt of Nepal, remained completely clam today due to the influence of people’s curfew observed throughout India in its bid to contain the spread of coronavirus infection in the southern neighbour. Nepal’s transit point to India remained eerie while short-route transport service

At a time when the government has taken sweeping measures to avoid COVID-19 in the country, a person returned to Bhadrapur of Jhapa from Thailand has adopted self-quarantine. Hailing his decision, the Public Health Office has provided technical assistance to him. The man of 37-year had arrived here via Biratnagar

State-1 Minister for Internal Affairs and Law Hikmat Karki on Thursday monitored works being carried out at far-east checkpoint Kakadbhitta to contain spread of COVID-19 infection. The minister made an on-site inspection of medical test process and mobilization of security personnel and health workers in the area. He directed the

Jhapa has one suspected case of coronavirus, and the suspect has been sent to Kathamandu for further medical checkup and confirmation. A resident of Bhadrapur, who is a male, visited the Biratnagar-based Nobel Medical Hospital as he had fever. Referral to Kathmandu after initial medical check-up suggested that he might

Tourist areas in Jhapa, the district in State 1, are exuding dismal look these days. It has been over 15 days that religious and historic sites in the district such as Kichakbadha, Krishna Thumki, Arjundhara Jaleshwordham, Shibasatakshidham, Domukha, Jamunkhadhi, Bansbari, and Kalika wetland site have seen no arrival of internal

Though the government has imposed provisions for measuring body temperature of those entering the country via the Karkarvitta point along the Nepal-India border in Jhapa, lack of a required number of ‘thermal gun’ has posed a challenge to systematize the screening system. People entering the country are arranged in a

A Ukraine couple entering Nepal from Kakadbhitta, eastern border point of Nepal, has been returned to India after they were suspected of carrying the coronavirus (Covid-19). Andrin Largegan, 34, and his spouse Olena Clinko were found with fever while undergoing test at the help desk set up at the entry