Covid-19 patients from the municipality had to go to isolation facilities in the neighbouring Sindhuli district for treatment.

The passengers were returning to their villages from Ladakh in India for the upcoming Dashain festival, said police.

The 40-bed hospital in Chaudandigadi Municipality will come into operation by the end of October.

The district has reported 125 coronavirus cases as of Saturday, according to the record of the District Health Office.

Until Wednesday, 92 people had tested positive for coronavirus in Udayapur. Among them, seven are from Katari.

The Saptakoshi is gaining strength as it gushes through provinces 1 and 2, eroding embankments, flooding settlements and displacing people.

The first positive case in the province was reported in Udayapur on April 17; the infection has spread to six other districts in a month.

A journalist reporting from Bhulke in Triyuga Municipality tested positive for the coronavirus.

The office took the decision in the wake of increased incidents of bushfires, trees felling, smuggling of woods and hunting of wild animals across the country.

"I know the authorities are being extra cautious but my name and address were made public on social media. This alone was stressing me out.”

Protesters demand the government change its policy on the forests conserved by consumers.

Lime extraction has also endangered aquatic life in the Sunkoshi river since the residue pollutants from the excavation site finds its way into the river.

Police believe it could be suicide, making it the third case in two months where people under probe took their own lives.

Relief materials provided by provincial government stuck in godowns

The provincial government has agreed to airlift food to floods- and landslides-affected areas.