Local units have rushed to impose restrictions while the provincial government has failed to strengthen health facilities.

Provincial Health Directorate said people working in vulnerable sectors will be prioritised.

Although long-distance travel remains banned, both private and public vehicles are moving in and out of Pokhara with passengers.

According to the Western Region Hotel Association, 70 tourist-standard hotels have shut down completely.

Banks have been asking the bus operators to pay the loan instalments.

Even though the government has eased the lockdown for private vehicles with an odd-even rule, there’s no such arrangement for public vehicles in sight.

Security personnel fire eight warning shots to disperse the mob that attempted to prevent authorities from burying the body.

The hospital only has an eight-bed ICU, of which four beds are occupied.

Future of as many as 40,000 students is insecure as the varsity remains without a vice-chancellor and registrar for over nine months.

24 construction projects have resumed operations in the city, according to the Pokhara Metropolitan Office.

With the decision, all hardware stores, vehicle workshops and other stores with essentials for construction and agriculture work will open in the province.

The bodies of two Korean tourists and a Nepali worker are yet to be retrieved.

Seven people—four South Korean tourists and three Nepali high altitude workers—had gone out of contact in the Annapurna Base Camp region last month.

The fourth council meeting of the Annapurna Rural Municipality decided to prohibit choppers in the region last fiscal year, citing adverse impact on the region’s ecology and tourism.

Travel trade entrepreneurs said that all lodges and tea houses on the route had reopened for business.