People in various quarantine facilities across the municipality say Rs 178 given by the municipality every day is not enough to cover the cost of their four meals.

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

The two basic schools in Limi, Namhka Ward No.6 are teaching their students citing that there’s no threat of coronavirus spread in the area.

Each worker will receive 50kg rice for five days of labour, municipal officials say.

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

Individuals say they are happy to comply with quarantine measures but the state of the facilities is dangerously unacceptable.

While vegetables are abundant in the market, the fruits are less so, since the import from India has stopped.

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.

Most of the facilities in Kalikot do not meet the basic requirements set by the federal government.

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

Two of the deceased children are said to be from the same family.

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 local administration admitted that most of the people sent home from quarantine were not tested for Covid-19.

Locals are aware of the lockdown and the government’s directive to stay indoors but a shortage of drinking water means they have no choice but to go out in search.

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

Humla saw a prolonged snowfall this winter and the route to Taklakot was closed before the pandemic.

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.

The local units do not have a concrete plan yet on how to tackle the mass unemployment that the crisis has wrought.

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.