Returning migrants in Sudurpaschim and Karnali face a bleak future. Government is still unclear how to provide help.

First came the ban in harvesting the fungus due to pandemic fears and now the government has taken note of the IUCN concern of conservation needs for the Himalayan ‘viagra’.

Fourteen of the 51 individuals sent home from quarantine three days ago test positive for virus.

Covid-19-infected people have started attending wedding ceremonies and are taking part in paddy transplantation and other social gatherings in their community, raising fears among the locals.

The landslide, which has displaced 400 people in Mallesi village of the district, puts 45 other households at the risk of being swept away.

In mid-April, the Covid-19 Crisis Management Committee in Bajhang had decided to impose a ban on the collection of the herb because of the coronavirus pandemic.

All municipalities and rural municipalities in the respective district will share the cost of the polymerase chain reaction machines, and expedite tests to curb the spread of Covid-19.

The use of these antibody testing apparatus continues in Bajhang and elsewhere, largely because of a lack of swift testing via PCR method.

Almost all local units are overwhelmed with the large influx of returnees in the past week.

A heart patient died on Monday because she ran out of her supply of medicines, according to District Hospital in Chainpur.

Most migrants who returned home this year as the Covid-19 crisis began came back empty-handed.

Some families allege the contractors were biased in distributing subsidised rice even when the supply chain was intact before the lockdown.

On Friday, a meeting of Covid-19 Crisis Management decided to prohibit yarshagumba collection until further notice.

Officials at the local unit have said that the fair was organised despite the call to stop it.

People coming from faraway villages returned home empty-handed.