A large number of Chinese tourists and Nepalis living and working in China arrive at the airport every day, but health screenings remain the passengers’ prerogative.

A team recommended by the World Health Organisation examined the laboratory.

Last year over 1,000 staff nurses and paramedics serving in 20 districts received screening training.

Epidemiology and Disease Control Division sought security agencies help to set up isolation facilities.

Blood and sputum collected from the patient, who returned from China earlier this month, will be sent abroad for tests, doctors say.

Health facilities’ reluctance to abide by the rules is putting public health at risk and polluting environment, experts say.

Currently, there’s no facility in the country that isolates passengers suspected of carrying infectious diseases.

Of the 1,445 private health facilities operating in the Kathmandu Valley, 52 health facilities are providing immunisation services.

Of the 285 essential drugs examined, 41 were found to be of substandard quality.

The new strain of coronavirus was first detected in the Wuhan city of China.

Many are dying because of lack of awareness, as burns are yet to be recognised as health priority, doctors say.

Several studies show more than two-thirds of deaths are caused by non-communicable diseases.

Continuous snowfall, human resource crunch and lack of viral transport medium are making it difficult to contain the disease, a week after it broke out.

The Ministry of Health and Population has been tracking flu viruses since 2010 through a National Influenza Centre.

According to the Department of Health Services, 2,036 newborn babies and 208 mothers died in the fiscal year 2018-19.