Locals are worried about the possible outbreak of Covid-19, as authorities do not conduct PCR tests on those returning home for Dashain and Tihar.

The victim’s relatives received the body eight days after the crime and performed funeral rites.

The accused, who is in custody, has not admitted to the crime, raising doubts about the police investigation, say family members.

A health camp is being conducted in the rural municipality for a week to examine the locals for vision-related ailments.

More than 80 percent of eye patients will regain their sight if authorities conduct an eye camp, say health workers.

In another landslide in Bajhang, two people have gone missing while four others were injured.

The disease has been reported in the district for the first time, say health workers.

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.