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3,200 police personnel and 500 traffic police personnel mobilized in Valley to strictly enforce prohibitory orders

Published On: April 29, 2021 03:49 PM NPT By: Republica

Kathmandu, April 29: The prohibitory orders imposed by the local administration of the three districts of the Kathmandu Valley to break the chain of transmission of the coronavirus is being strictly enforced.

As hospitals are already overwhelmed, doctors at country’s only infectious disease hospital ask govt to build additional isolation centers

Published On: April 29, 2021 03:46 PM NPT By: Republica

Although it has only 60 beds, the Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital (STIDH) – the only infectious and tropical disease hospital in Nepal – has already admitted 68 patients. More than 90 percent of those admitted to the hospital are in need of oxygen support.

First day of prohibitory orders in Valley (photo feature)

Published On: April 29, 2021 03:28 PM NPT By: Dipesh Shrestha

KATHMANDU, April 29: The local administration in the three districts of the Kathmandu Valley -- Kathmandu, Bhaktapur and Lalitpur -- imposed a week-long (April 29-May 5) prohibitory orders issuing separate notices in an apparent bid to break the terrifying chain of COVID-19 infection.

Govt exempts customs duty, VAT and excise duty on import of medical equipment including oxygen cylinder

Published On: April 29, 2021 03:03 PM NPT By: Republica

KATHMANDU, April 29: The government has decided to exempt various taxes on the import of various medical equipment including the life-saving oxygen cylinder.

Dolpa decides to shut schools as the district reports first COVID-19 case of second wave

Published On: April 29, 2021 02:45 PM NPT By: Republica

DOLPA, April 29: The district administration in Dolpa has decided to shut schools after a worker of the Jufal Airport tested positive for the coronavirus.

‘Second wave of COVID-19 not sparing even healthy youths in Nepal’

Published On: April 29, 2021 12:27 PM NPT By: Republica

KATHMANDU, April 29: The coronavirus infection in Nepal last year had made the elderly and the chronically-ill people more vulnerable, resulting in a large number of deaths in the same groups. However, the current wave of COVID-19 has affected the healthy youths as well. Doctors involved in the treatment of the patients have pointed out that the death rate of even the youths has increased.

Three die of COVID-19 within half an hour in Butwal

Published On: April 29, 2021 12:16 PM NPT By: Republica

BUTWAL, April 29: Three people died at the Corona Special Temporary Hospital in Butwal on Thursday. All the three died within half an hour, said the hospital's Information Officer Dr Bishnu Gautam. Two men and a woman died in the ICU of the Corona Special Treatment Hospital run by Lumbini Provincial Hospital.

IN PICS: Day One of Prohibitory Order in the Valley

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