Bandipur Rural Municipality deems it more sustainable to provide job opportunities to the locals than providing relief packages.

Around 880 workers from across the border have been stranded at various brick kilns in Nawalparasi (East) due to the lockdown.

While the villagers have engaged in community work, they haven’t forgotten the importance of taking precautionary measures amid the coronavirus outbreak.

The tourists who have chosen to stay back are spread around Chhingur, Jomson, Jharkot, Ghasa, Pisang, Ngawal, Taal and Dhampus, among other places.

Four leopards, two barking deers, and a wild cat have been found dead in various places in the district during the lockdown period.

Plans to set up an isolation facility have yet to materialise because of a dispute among the members of Covid-19 Command Control Post.

The province is seeing a steady flow of people from outside despite the nationwide lockdown in place.

The government has announced that development projects can recommence by following safety standards.

People have been reluctant to stay in the centres, local officials say.

Covid-19 cases are on the rise in other provinces and trucks, including people, are coming in. So there’s still a possibility of an outbreak, says the Provincial Health Office.

Kwholasothar Rural Municipality makes 14-day quarantine mandatory for people coming from outside.

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

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

Locals migrate out of the district in October-November every year to avoid the biting cold and return home in March.

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

“We are actively searching for the remaining 10 persons involved in the killing of Jeet Bahadur Rana,” chief of Syangja District Police SP Bimal Raj Kandel said.

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

In Parbat, the fences are still intact despite the fact that the police have been deployed at major entry points to scrutinise the movements of people.

Health workers in Myagdi have advised people to adopt preventive measures to control the spread of dengue and scrub typhus citing them as easily transmissible diseases.

On Tuesday, Lamjung Chamber of Commerce filed a letter of concern to the Chief District Officer asking to restrict the movement of vehicles from outside the district.