n 27 January, Nepal’s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) published the preliminary report of the 2021 census, ten years after the last one. Nepal’s 12th ever census, postponed from its May-June 2021 date due to the Covid-19 second wave last year, was conducted by some 40,000 enumerators and supervisors from 11-25 November. The new report […]
HAPSA Nepal and White Grain Foundation team assemble home isolation kits for distribution in rural nepal. Photos: HAPSA NEPAL ven as the Nepal’s Covid-19 second wave appears to be cresting, and many hospitals do not have to turn away patients anymore, there are still at least 80,000 active cases across the country, most them isolating […]
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASI epal’s oxygen emergency has eased somewhat as the Covid-19 second wave crests, but the crisis exposed serious gaps in the supply and distribution of medical oxygen with major implications for the future. At the peak of the second wave, many Covid-19 patients died as hospitals ran out of oxygen, but with an […]
Swiss Ambassador Elisabeth von Capeller (centre) handing over the consignment to Health Minister Hridayesh Tripathi on Saturday at Kathmandu airport. Also pictured, Head of Cooperation for SDC Silvana Hogg. Photo: AMIT MACHAMASI he United States, the EU, Australia, China, Singapore are all flying in emergency supplies to help Nepal battle a fierce Covid-19 second wave, […]
SINDHULI, May 3: An octogenarian has died of coronavirus in the district. The 80-year-old woman of Tinpatan rural municipality-2 who was in home isolation following the infection died on Friday morning, confirmed Sindhuli Hospital’s chair Prhalad Pokhrel.
This is the first death in the district from the second wave of coronavirus. Presently, there are 95 active cases in the district. The highest cases (47) are in the Kamalamai municipality followed by 29 in Dudhauli municipality, 13 in Sunkoshi rural municipality, three in Tinpatan, two in Marin rural municipality and one in the Phikkal rural municipality.
Meantime, two local levels have implemented a lockdown order against the virus. The Dudhauli municipality has announced the lockdown till May 12, beginning from today while Golanjar rural municipality went into lockdown on Sunday and it shall remain in effect till May 9. Both local levels have closed all services except the most essential ones.
Likewise, the distribution of national identity cards has been temporarily suspended following the detection of virus in the district. A meeting held Sunday under the chair of District Disaster Management Committee chair and Chief District Officer Suresh Neupane decided to recommend the postponement of the national cards distribution campaign for the time being.
The meeting has decided to urge all local levels to speed up contact tracing, further systematize oxygen plants in Covid hospitals and bring the Apollo Hospital’s isolation ward into operation, according to CDO Neupane.
On Thursday last week, the government issued a notice requesting restauranteurs and other nighttime business operators to close their businesses after 9 pm as the number of active Covid-19 cases is on the rise again.
