A 35-year-old man from Dailekh was reported as the first positive case on Monday.

The drive aims to conduct tests on around 10,000 people suspected of having Covid-19.

Even though the province hasn’t reported any cases so far, the provincial government decided to exercise caution in light of the growing coronavirus cases in two neighbouring provinces.

The province prepares for a fight against Covid-19 given the large influx of Nepali migrant workers from India in the last month.

The recently purchased PCR machines can process a maximum of 96 samples at a time but the available VTMs and processing kits will not be sufficient to run the maximum number of tests.

The machines will be installed at the Provincial Hospital in Birendranagar and Jumla-based Karnali Academy of Health Sciences.

The Provincial Health Directorate had dispatched around 5,000 kits to all 10 districts of Karnali Province last week.

Although the provincial health directorate dispatched 3,760 rapid diagnostic test kits to various districts in Karnali a week ago, officials in Dolpa haven’t received the kits yet.

As the machine started malfunctioning, the lab on Tuesday sent 15 samples of throat swabs to Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital in Teku, Kathmandu.

The government could have facilitated their travel from Rupaidiha but they were left completely neglected, say the returnees.

Around 80 people who returned from India in the past two weeks cooped up in a 28-room hotel in Birendranagar.

A provincial meeting has decided to make an action plan to raise awareness about the pandemic in villages.

The influenza-like illness that claimed nine lives in Tajakot Rural Municipality of Humla has gradually come under control, according to the authorities concerned.

Bheri Babai Diversion Multipurpose Project in the western Nepal, the irrigation cum hydroelectricity scheme, has completed digging the 12-km tunnel using a tunnel boring machine, one year before the originally set deadline.

Bheri Babai Diversion Multipurpose Project, the irrigation cum hydroelectricity scheme, has completed digging more than 75 percent of the 12-km long tunnel using a tunnel boring machine. The project is using the machine to excavate a tunnel for the first time in Nepal.