SOCIETY, Latest Updates, Coronavirus
Lockdown alone not enough to contain virus spread
Lockdown alone not enough to contain virus spread
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 outbre...
Mar 27, 2020
POLITICS, Interview, Latest Updates, Coronavirus
The govt is not sleeping: Foreign Minister Gyawali
The govt is not sleeping: Foreign Minister Gyawali
While reports claim that individuals with the symptoms are not being entertained by private hospitals triggering a riskier and chaotic situation, the government's coordination is seen not very effective to handle the national crisis. Foreign Minister Pradeep Gyawali spoke to Republica's Anjali Subed...
Mar 27, 2020
SOCIETY, Latest Updates
How private individuals are doing their bit amid coronavirus pandemic
How private individuals are doing their bit amid coronavirus...
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.
Mar 27, 2020
SOCIETY, Latest Updates, Coronavirus
Rules to be followed in self-quarantine
Rules to be followed in self-quarantine
Rules to be followed while in self-quarantine
Mar 27, 2020
SOCIETY, Latest Updates
Gas bottlers asked to sell half-filled cooking gas cylinders
Gas bottlers asked to sell half-filled cooking gas cylinders
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.
Mar 27, 2020
SOCIETY, Latest Updates
Foreign embassies start evacuating their stranded citizens
Foreign embassies start evacuating their stranded citizens
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 t...
Mar 27, 2020
WORLD
Ten of millions face losing jobs in escalating coronavirus crisis
Ten of millions face losing jobs in escalating coronavirus c...
GENEVA/WASHINGTON, March 27: Global job losses from the coronavirus crisis could far exceed the 25 million estimated just days ago, U.N. officials said on Thursday, as U.S. jobless claims surged to record levels, starkly showing the scale of the economic disaster.
Mar 27, 2020
WORLD
Afghanistan to release 10,000 prisoners to slow spread of coronavirus
Afghanistan to release 10,000 prisoners to slow spread of co...
KABUL, March 27: Afghanistan will release at least 10,000 prisoners above the age of 55 in an attempt to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, officials said on Thursday.
Mar 27, 2020
WORLD
Italy coronavirus deaths rise by 662 in a day, lifting total death toll to 8,165
Italy coronavirus deaths rise by 662 in a day, lifting total...
ROME, March 26: The death toll from an outbreak of coronavirus in Italy has grown by 662 to 8,165, the Civil Protection Agency said on Thursday.
Mar 26, 2020
WORLD
Pandemic's U.S. death toll tops 1,000, jobless data sets record
Pandemic's U.S. death toll tops 1,000, jobless data sets rec...
NEW YORK, March 26: The U.S. coronavirus death toll surged past 1,000 on Thursday and the number of Americans seeking jobless benefits smashed records, sombre evidence of the pandemic’s human and economic devastation.
Mar 26, 2020