Uncontrolled people’s movement risking Rupandehi to Covid-19 outbreak
The district is not doing much to contain the virus spread while local residents are not following health measures.
The district is not doing much to contain the virus spread while local residents are not following health measures.
Landslides at Limgha and Thulolumpek in Gulmi district had claimed 13 lives and displaced around 100 families last year.
Health facilities run by the federal government witness a sharp drop in number of people coming in for tests as they start charging money.
The provincial assembly also endorsed Deukhuri Valley in Dang as the capital of the province.
The district administration has enforced a four-day-long prohibitory order in major places of Butwal starting Sunday morning.
Fourteen provincial assembly members representing the NCP wrote a ‘note of dissent’ during the parliamentary party meeting.
The number of critical Covid-19 patients has started to increase in hospitals after the government stopped contact tracing, health officials say.
The hospitals identified by the federal government as corona-specific hospitals are in no shape to be upgraded immediately for the treatment of coronavirus patients, say district hospital authorities.
The murder suspect prone to erratic mood swings, said police and locals.
Three districts in the province—Banke, Rupandehi and Kapilvastu—will collectively set up 3,000 bed-strong quarantine facilities for those who have and may return from India.
Even though the province has zero cases so far, the risk is still high, given many districts in the province share borders with India.
Following a meeting with family members, the Social Development Ministry agreed to provide the deceased’s wife with a job and fund the education of their two sons up to grade 12.
Local units work together with residents to curb people’s movement in a bid to slow down the spread of coronavirus.
While in a majority of districts, the situation remained normal with public complying with the order, in others the police had to make arrests, confiscate vehicles and even resort to imposing a curfew.
The decision to designate the province’s capital and name would be passed through the two-thirds majority of the assembly.