The Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) has urged the government to pay attention to the implementation of coronavirus control and sensitisation campaign. Stating that the initiatives taken and works carried out so far by the government to prevent COVID-19 were the right ones, RPP has called for improvements in the government’s

The whole country is under a lockdown amidst fears of COVID-19 pandemic. Most of the restaurants and eateries in the city are closed. But there is a restaurant in town, Dalle Restaurant, that is serving food to essential services workers who have to report to work even in such situation.

The government has decided to keep a total of 1,939 ambulances on standby for contingency that may occur in course of prevention and control of COVID-19 in the country. The meeting of the High Level Coordination Committee for the Prevention and Control of COVID-19 formed under the convenorship of Deputy

The Ministry for Health and Population has stated that swab samples for COVID-19 test were being collected and tested regularly to detect and treat COVID-19 cases in the country. Speaking at the daily press conference here today, Ministry’s Spokesperson Dr Bikash Devkota shared that so far 1,796 nasal and throat

Chief Executive Officer of Investment Board of Nepal Maha Prasad Adhikari has been appointed as the new Governor of Nepal Rastra Bank. The position had remained vacant since outgoing Governor Dr Chiranjibi Nepal ended his term 19 days ago. Adhikari was appointed the new governor of the central bank for

– Purna Prasad Mishra Firewood and timber smuggling has been reportedly on the rise from Shivapuri Nagarjun National Park during the lockdown period. According to the Park’s chief conservation officer Dil Bahadur Purja, around 100 persons have already been arrested on the charge of timber smuggling in the past week.

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

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