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Kathmandu Valley issues week-long prohibitory orders Thursday 6:00 AM onwards

The government has imposed week-long prohibitory orders in the Kathmandu Valley effective from early morning Thursday. A meeting between the district administration officers of Kathmandu, Lalitpur and Bhaktapur today made the decision to this effect. All services except essential ones will be shut down in the Kathmandu Valley. Both private and public transport will be […]

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‘Super-spreader’ erupts as devout Hindus throng Indian festival

HARIDWAR, India, April 14 (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of ash-smeared ascetics and devout Hindus jostled to take a dip in the Ganges during a religious festival on Wednesday, hoping to wash away their sins, as India reported another record surge in coronavirus infections. As huge crowds made their way towards the river on a

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Singapore confirms first case of new coronavirus variant found in UK

Singapore has confirmed its first case of the new coronavirus variant found in the United Kingdom, the city-state said, while 11 others who were already in quarantine had returned preliminarily positive results for the new strain. All the cases, which were imported from Europe, had been placed in 14-day quarantine at dedicated facilities or isolated

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Government cuts quarantine, isolation periods for COVID-19 patients to 10 days

The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) has cut down quarantine and isolation periods for patients infected with COVID-19 to 10 days instead of the earlier 14-day requirement. US’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in its revised and less rigorous guidelines for monitoring and isolation of COVID-19 patients published on May 3, said

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COVID-19 vaccines should be universally accessible and not a means to draw profit: PM Oli

Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has said that the vaccine against corona virus should be universally accessible to all nations and people like a public commodity. Addressing the 31st special session of the UN General Assembly on Friday through a video message, Prime Minister Oli said the world would not be safe from epidemics unless

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CAAN casts doubt on reliability of PCR testing labs as passengers test COVID positive at destination countries

As several Nepal Airlines (NA) passengers carrying negative test reports for COVID-19 tested positive at the destination airports, the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) has raised questions about the credibility of private labs in the country. CAAN expressed concern that such ‘false certificates’ could trigger foreign governments to ban NA from flying to their

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Contact tracing comes to a halt in Kathmandu; Private laboratories flourish

As the Kathmandu Valley turns into a COVID-19 hotspot, the Teku-based National Public Health Laboratory (NPHL) has stopped testing swab samples collected through contact tracing among Kathmandu residents citing violation of government-set criteria. NPHL stopped testing swab samples collected through contact tracing by the local level governments in Kathmandu after the Ministry of Health and

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Contempt of court case filed against PM Oli, Health Minister Dhakal

Stating that Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and Minister of Health and Population Bhanu Bhakta Dhakal had disobeyed the Supreme Court’s order to the government to test and treat COVID-19 patients free of cost, advocates Lokendra Oli and Keshar Jung KC have filed a contempt of court case against the duo. A division bench of

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‘Stay at home’: Johnson locks down England as UK COVID-19 cases pass 1 million

LONDON, Oct 31 (Reuters) – Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordered England back into a national lockdown after the United Kingdom passed the milestone of one million COVID-19 cases and a second wave of infections threatened to overwhelm the health service. The United Kingdom, which has the biggest official death toll in Europe from COVID-19, is

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All government hospitals in Kathmandu Valley to treat COVID-19 patients; Public vehicles allowed to carry passengers in full capacity

As the cases of COVID-19 cases are rising at an alarming rate on a daily basis, the government has decided to convert all government hospitals in Kathmandu into COVID-19 hospitals. Spokesperson for the Ministry of Health and Population, Jageshwor Gautam, informed mediapersons on Monday that the Ministry had asked all government hospitals in the capital

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