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Qatar Airways flight evacuates 305 foreigners including 190 Germans

Published On: March 27, 2020 03:10 PM NPT By: Republica

KATHMANDU, March 27: A special Qatar Airways flight has evacuated 305 foreigners including 190 Germans from Kathmandu today.

KMC keeping records of individuals arriving after March 1

Published On: March 27, 2020 01:00 PM NPT By: RSS

KATHMANDU, March 27: In view of COVID-19 fears, the Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) is collecting record of individuals returning home from foreign countries after March 1.

Germany sends special Qatar Airways flight to evacuate its citizens stranded in Nepal

Published On: March 27, 2020 12:00 PM NPT By: Tapendra Karki

KATHMANDU, March 27: Germany is evacuating its 325 citizens from Kathmandu today who were stranded in various trekking trails of Nepal after the government enforced a week-long lockdown earlier this week to curb the spread of coronavirus.

Quality Time In Quarantine

Published On: March 27, 2020 09:30 AM NPT By: KUMUDINI PANT

21-year-old Aakriti Kapali says that the coronavirus pandemic feels like a bad, sad dream. The only good thing, so far, is that her life, though changed, hasn’t come to a standstill. Since her job is mostly translating and transcribing data, she is working from home. And she’s grateful to have that semblance of normalcy in life in the current times.

Lockdown alone not enough to contain virus spread

Published On: March 27, 2020 07:16 AM NPT By: Ashok Dahal

Kathmandu, March 27:A massive swab testing campaign including the establishment of drive-thru test centers and mobile booths across the the country is hailed as one of the major successes of South Korea to limit the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. The second country to cope up with the virus outbreak after China developed a testing capacity of 20,000 per day from 633 sites across the nation

How private individuals are doing their bit amid coronavirus pandemic

Published On: March 27, 2020 07:05 AM NPT By: Aditi Baral

KATHMANDU, March 27: While the trepidation of COVID-19 has already forced several businesses to shut, compelling people to spend their savings to buy essentials, some businesses and even ordinary people are offering a helping hand to the needy at the time of the global pandemic.

Rules to be followed in self-quarantine

Published On: March 27, 2020 07:00 AM NPT By: Kamal Subedi

Rules to be followed while in self-quarantine

Gas bottlers asked to sell half-filled cooking gas cylinders

Published On: March 27, 2020 06:05 AM NPT By: RAJESH KHANAL

KATHMANDU, March 27: Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC), in a bid to ease the supply of cooking gas, has directed the gas bottling companies to sell half-filled cylinders to the customers.

Foreign embassies start evacuating their stranded citizens

Published On: March 27, 2020 05:25 AM NPT By: Republica

KATHMANDU, March 27: A day after the High-Level Coordination Committee formed to prevent and control the spread of coronavirus decided to facilitate concerned countries to rescue their nationals stranded in Nepal, a few foreign countries have started evacuating their citizens from various trekking trails of Nepal to repatriate them.

Amid lockdown, vegetable market and groceries resumed in Gaur (with photos)

Published On: March 26, 2020 11:00 PM NPT By: Madan Thakur

RAUTAHAT, March 27: In a bid to ease the smooth supplies of vegetables in the district headquarters, the Rautahat district administration resumed local vegetable markets on Thursday.