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

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.

Former Queen Komal Shah shifted to ICU

Published On: April 29, 2021 11:16 AM NPT By: Republica

KATHMANDU, April 29: Former Queen Komal Shah, who was infected with coronavirus, has been shifted to ICU.

Prohibitory order begins in the Valley

Published On: April 29, 2021 07:46 AM NPT By: Republica

KATHMANDU, April 29: The prohibitory order issued by the chief district officers (CDOs) of Kathmandu, Bhaktapur and Lalitpur has come into effect from today.

Kathmandu Valley’s COVID-19 case tally up by 2,047 in a day

Published On: April 28, 2021 05:50 PM NPT By: Republica

KATHMANDU, April 28: The Kathmandu Valley witnessed 2,047 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday.

PPE stock at Bheri hospital depleting fast

Published On: April 28, 2021 05:26 PM NPT By: Republica

NEPALGUNJ, April 28: The stock of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) used by medical professionals during the treatment of COVID-19 patients and the transportation of dead bodies is depleting fast at Bheri Hospital

COVID-19 infection rate of Nepal up by 228 percent than last week

KATHMANDU, April 28: Oxygen factories are working 24 hours a day to produce medical oxygen with a sharp rise in demand for oxygen.