Dharan-based BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences (BPKIHS) has started laboratory tests for COVID-19 infection from today. At a press conference today, Ministry spokesperson Dr Bikas Devkota shared that coronavirus infection test has also begun from Dharan on Saturday. Before this, coronavirus infection test was carried out only in Kathmandu-based

The Ministry of Health and Population has said test kit for the coronavirus, its medicines, laboratory materials and personal protective equipment (PPE) are being imported through joint dialogue between producers and distributors. In a press statement today, Ministry’s Spokesperson Dr Bikash Devkota shared that the Department of Health Service is

A five-month pregnant woman of Khotang district has been airlifted to Kathmandu after excessive-bleeding. Srijana Tamang, 22, of Aiselukharka rural municipality-3 is receiving treatment at Paropakar Maternity and Women’s Hospital at Thapathali, said Tamang’s husband Ganesh Tamang. She was rescued on a Nepal Army helicopter. Minister for Women, Children and

Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ has asked the people to remain more alert against the COVID-19, while extending gratitude to the government and people for the precautionary measures in the fight against COVID-19. In a video message today, the former Prime Minister has expressed the confidence

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

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

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

A woman who was diagnosed with COVID-19 infection is under treatment at the isolation ward of the Shukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital at Teku. The hospital sources said the 19-year-old woman’s health is improving. She had arrived in Nepal from France via Doha of Qatar. The hospital said the

A two-bed isolation ward each at Sushma Koirala Memorial and People’s Life Care Hospital at Shankharapur municipality has been set up. Similarly, a nine-bed quarantine facility has been established at the primary health centre at Indrayani ward-9, said Shankharapur municipality mayor Subarna Shrestha. The municipality has started distributing facemasks, hand