Seven women died of delivery complications in Banke within two months.

Security personnel from both countries have come together to tighten checks along the sealed border in light of rising coronavirus cases.

Local workforce is filling the vacuum created by foreign migrant workers who left for their home countries when the pandemic hit.

Coronavirus suspects have to wait for at least 10 days to get their test results.

Some health workers in the district have set up coronavirus insurance in their own initiatives by paying premiums themselves.

Health workers have not reached out to every patient in home isolation for lack of manpower and resources, say local authorities.

The hospitals identified by the federal government as corona-specific hospitals are in no shape to be upgraded immediately for the treatment of coronavirus patients, say district hospital authorities.

District Hospitals in Arghakhanchi and Nawalparasi (West) have closed all services, except emergency units, and sent their Covid-infected health workers in isolation.

The hospital was built for Covid-19 patients but has been unable to start services due to a lack of human resource.

Tilottama Municipality’s decision to set up an isolation centre in Banbatika, Ward No 2 has been on hold since Puspalal Park has denied the municipality’s request to use the park’s building as an isolation centre.

Authorities have made PCR test reports mandatory for all air passengers on rescue flights but are unclear about who should bear the expense of the test.

District Hospital, the only government hospital in the area, has closed its services after Covid-19 spread among staff.

243 people treated at a local hospital for dog bites in the past one month.

Local units ill-prepared to handle the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic as cases begin to surge in the province.

Twenty-seven people in the district including nine employees of the Inland Revenue Office in Nepalgunj, tested positive for coronavirus on Thursday.

Authorities say continuous rainfall has hampered the search and rescue operation.

Some of the road sections blocked by landslide debris had also suffered the same fate last year.

One person was able to save his life by jumping off the vehicle, said police.

Farmers, on the other hand, are troubled further, as many of them had taken loans to purchase the fertilisers.

Many local unit heads have protested against the Academy’s move, arguing that it is the federal or provincial government’s responsibility to pay for the tests.