Five to six members of a family are showing similar symptoms but few have been seeking Covid test.

Residents of the affected settlements have urged authorities to move them to safer locations.

Middlemen have been buying tickets from airlines and selling them at higher prices, local residents say.

Various sections along the Dhangadhi-Dadeldhura road have caved in due to multiple landslides during the monsoon rains this year.

Landslides in early September destroyed houses and fertile lands and still pose a grave risk to settlements in Chure Rural Municipality, Kailali.

As per a 2016 survey, 36 percent of children under five were stunted, nine percent wasted, and 28 percent of children were underweight in the Province.

While Food Management and Trading Company Limited has stopped selling subsidised rice, food prices in the local market have skyrocketed due to transport disruption.

Floods and landslides since mid-June have damaged the Sanfe-Martadi road section at several places.

The number of Covid-19 patients suffering from diarrhoea, fatigue, loss of appetite and bloating, among other symptoms, has increased, health workers say.

The pandemic has only highlighted the poor health infrastructure in the province, say health workers

As many as 34 returnees entering Nepal from Gauriphanta border point tested positive for Covid-19 in the past five days.

Local residents living in disaster-risk zones have been requesting relocation to safer areas but authorities are yet to come forward with a plan.

Dhangadhi airport, upgraded at the initiative of the people, has not only boosted in economic growth but also helped connect the plains and the mountains in the region.

Health institutions across the province are running short of funds to continue their fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.

Eighty thousand migrant workers have applied for the government grant prepared for only 5,000.