New York, New Jersey and Connecticut have asked people travelling from states where virus cases are rising to go into self-isolation for 14 days. New Jersey’s Phil Murphy said people in the three states had been “through hell and back” and did not want “another round” of virus infections. Some southern and western states have […]
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If nothing, the Covid-19 pandemic has taught everyone across the globe that maintaining hand hygiene holds utmost significance in order to keep infection at bay. In Nepal, 52% people do not have access to hand washing facilities with soap and water at home (JMP 2017). Similarly, 54% of healthcare facilities in Nepal do not have
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A 28-year-old female staying in a quarantine facility at Ganyapdhura Rural Municipality-2 of Dadeldhura district breathed her last today morning. The female, along with her husband and two children (3-year-old son and 6-month-old daughter), had returned from India through the Gauriphanta border point in Dhangadhi four days ago. The female and her family were staying
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A 22-year-old female staying in a quarantine facility at Purchodi Municipality-4 of Baitadi district died on today morning. The female, along with her husband and 18-month-old child, had returned from India via Gauriphanta border point in Dhangadhi and reached the quarantine facility on May 29. They were kept at a quarantine facility in Maalika Secondary
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A six-year-old has died at a quarantine facility in Nawadurga rural municipality-3 of Dadeldhura district. The kid is said to have died at midnight on Saturday. The kid had been kept at the quarantine facility in Dadeldhura Multiple Campus with his family after they entered Nepal via the Gaurifanta border point from India on Saturday.
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Today marks the 60th day of the nation-wide lockdown imposed by the government in a bid to curb the spread of the deadly coronavirus infection. However, the number of infected only seems to rise. Mass testing, contact tracing, and ensuring a dignified livelihood of the poor population should have been the government’s strategy. But nobody
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As many as 18 Indian labourers working at a plywood industry in Birtamod ran away from the quarantine facility at Kichakbadh in Jhapa yesterday. A month ago, the workers from West Bengal were caught by local residents while heading towards India through Prithivinagar. They had been kept in quarantine ever since. According to the local
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The second lot of nasal and throat swab samples sent for lab test for coronavirus has come back negative. With this, those kept in quarantine will get to go home today. As many as 175 Nepalis were rescued from Wuhan of China on February 16 and were kept in quarantine at Kharipati of Bhaktapur. They
Nepalis evacuated from China to go home today as second test comes negative Read Post »
Samples of nasal and throat swabs have been collected and sent for lab test for the second time from 175 Nepalis evacuated from China, currently quarantined at Nepal Electricity Authority Training Centre, Kharipati. Similarly, swap samples were also collected from 18 crew members who had gone to China to evacuate the Nepalis and are currently
Throat, nasal samples collected from quarantined Nepalis for second time Read Post »
All 175 Nepali nationals evacuated from China’s Hubei province and kept in quarantine at Kharipati of Bhaktapur since Sunday morning have tested negative for coronavirus, the Ministry of Health and Population informed. Organizing a press conference today, Health Secretary Khagaraj Baral said that the throat and nasal swabs sent to the National Public Health Laboratory for
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