Collective paddy transplantation and local festivals have contributed to the spread of the virus in the community.

Risk of food shortage has increased as villages remain cut off from the rest of the district for the past three weeks.

Around 80 percent of the reconstruction work has been completed so far, officials say.

It takes more than a week for test results to arrive, as the district has to send swab samples to Pokhara for testing.

The authorities, however, do not have any record of workers who returned to and from Gorkha on foot in recent days.

Reconstruction works were started in January last year.

Dharche Rural Municipality has employed heralds and used radio services to disseminate information in highlands.

Capitalising on high demand for construction materials and negligence of local officials, smugglers continue to haphazardly extract riverbed materials from Daraudi River.

Many senior citizens were turned away from vaccination centres without getting inoculated.

The pipeline of a drinking water project has suffered damages within a month of inauguration.

The local residents put the blame for the delay on the contractor company and the Department of Archeology.

Only 16 families have moved to the new settlement built for 573 earthquake-displaced families in Gupsipakha, Gorkha, till date.

The rural municipality has initiated ‘Employment Programme for Relief’ through all its ward offices.

The local units decided to run vaccination campaigns after five cases of measles were reported recently.

Shahid Lakhan Rural Municipality has decided to accept only money and medical equipment from donors.