Govt seeks all sides' efforts to cope up crisis: Minister Bhatta   

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.    

Food stuffs distributed to poor families in Siraha  

Mirchaiya municipality here has begun providing food stuff to the families hit-hard with lockdown.      The daily wages earners and poor families are facing hardship due to lockdown as they were not getting work and earning to buy daily essential goods.    

Committee formed against coronavirus outbreak   

A district level COVID-19 control committee has been formed under the convenorship of State Assembly member Bijaya Subedi.    

300 stranded workers rescued   

At least 300 workers who were stranded along Sahajpur-Bogatan road as a result of lockdown imposed by the government over coronavirus crisis have been rescued on Friday.   

Chief Minister Shahi calls for unity in combating COVID-19 menace   

Chief Minister of Karnali State, Mahendra Bahadur Shahi, has appealed to the people of the State to put in unified efforts in the campaign against coronavirus pandemic. 

Nine-bed quarantine facility, four-bed isolation ward in Shankharapur   

A two-bed isolation ward each at Sushma Koirala Memorial and People's Life Care Hospital at Shankharapur municipality h as been set up. Similarly,

Face masks and sanitisers hard to come by in Lalitpur   

Rajesh Maharjan of Lalitpur Metropolitan City-10 has been looking for face masks and sanitiser in the market for many days, but has not managed to get them as the coronavirus fear grips the world and the country goes into lockdown against this pandemic.     

Person spreading rumours about coronavirus held  

A person spreading rumours in social media that coronavirus infection has been found in Jhapa district has been arrested from Damak on Friday evening.     Deputy Superintendent Bijaya Pandit at the Area Police Office Damak said 35-year-old Kumar Rai of Damak-1 has been taken under control on the charge of spreading the false rumour.     Meanwhile, the various quarantine facilities set up in Jhapa dis

Three persons including two Iran-returnees kept in isolation

Of them, two had returned home from Iran last month. An old man living with them in Kathmandu has also been kept in isolation as they reached to health centre complaining of common cold and cough.

COVID-19: Three dailies, four weeklies shut down in Dailekh  

All three dailies and four weeklies being published from Dailekh district have stopped their publications for indefinite period after the lockdown for the fear of COVID-19.