Although the Department of Customs has issued safety guidelines, it hasn’t provided protective gear for the staff deployed at the border.

Poachers have become active in several forests of Rautahat in the last few weeks, according to the Division Forest Office.

The party had collected the amount to help the survivors of last year’s windstorm in Bara and Parsa.

The facility does not have a running water supply or enough soaps, say health workers.

Of the three ambulances, two are privately owned and one belongs to the Nepal Red Cross Society in Hirapur.

Nepal Chikitsak Sangh on Wednesday issued a statement in retaliation to Chief Minister Lal Babu Raut’s call to cancel the registration of private hospitals refusing treatment to patients.

The federal government had sent the necessary equipment and a team of doctors from Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital to set up a testing lab.

In Rautahat’s Chandrapur, political parties and senior government officials are exerting pressure on local representatives to provide food relief to their friends and families.

The government has instructed chief district officers of all eight districts to abrogate registration of private health institutions if found guilty of turning away patients.

Workers, the poor and farmers vulnerable to the lockdown enforced in view of the Covid-19 crisis will receive both food items and cash as the provincial government kicks off relief distribution.

The government is also planning a broader package to look after other struggling groups and businesses, according to a minister.

Returnees are reluctant to stay in quarantine, say local authorities.

The smugglers had reached the core area of the national park in search of wildlife during the lockdown period.

Elected representatives claim they have fully-equipped health desks and isolation wards, which is not true.

Districts in Province 2 start tracing contacts of people who entered Nepal in the past two weeks.

The driver has been arrested on charges of hiding the passengers in the truck and ferrying them to Birgunj amidst the nationwide lockdown.

Birgunj prison is preparing to release elderly inmates to stem coronavirus risk.

Border authorities on either side have banned pedestrians and vehicles, including two-wheelers and e-rickshaws, from crossing the border.

Lab report by Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Patna, specifically mentions ‘negative’ for 2019-nCoV.

Only two borders—Raxaul and Jatahi—are open for transporting goods across the two countries, according to Koshhari Niraula, CDO of Dhanusha district.